# King Tarquin — The City of God character guide

> King Tarquin in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Tarquin, king Tarquin

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

Last king of Rome, whose tyranny led to the establishment of the Republic.

## In the story

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix)

Father of Sextus Tarquinius; mentioned as the one who was banished along with his son.

### [Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome’s palmiest days.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii)

Expelled king whose son violated Lucretia.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii)

Identified as the builder of the Capitol for Jupiter.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv)

Tarquinius Superbus, who murdered his father-in-law Servius Tullius and built the Capitol from spoils of war.

### [Of the first Roman consuls, the one of whom drove the other from the country, and shortly after perished at Rome by the hand of a wounded enemy, and so ended a career of unnatural murders](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi)

Tarquin the tyrant, whose expulsion led to the consulship; his son was slain by Brutus, but Tarquin himself survived Brutus.

### [Concerning Felicity, whom the Romans, who venerate many gods, for a long time did not worship with divine honour, though she alone would have sufficed instead of all.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxiii)

King who built the Capitol and consulted the gods about giving place to Jupiter.

### [Of the falsity of the augury by which the strength and stability of the Roman empire was considered to be indicated](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxix)

Roman king under whom the auspice regarding Mars, Terminus, and Juventas was made.

### [Book V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-v)

Banished king whose expulsion led to the consular government and Roman liberty.

### [By What Virtues the Ancient Romans Merited That the True God, Although They Did Not Worship Him, Should Enlarge Their Empire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xii)

Banished king whose tyranny spurred Roman desire for liberty.

### [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi)

Mentioned for the prodigy of cutting a whetstone with a razor.

### [Chapter XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxvi)

The seventh king of the Romans, whose expulsion led to the end of kingly rule in Rome.

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