Ancus Marcius

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Ancus Marcius

Ancus Marcius (r. 640 BC – 616 BC) was the fourth of the Kings of Rome, possibly a legendary figure.

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Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius , according to legend, was the second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus. After Romulus died, Romans in the city elected a Sabine man to be king, so as to make him loyal to both tribes in Rome....
, his reputed maternal grandfather (he was the son of Marcius II and wife Pompilia), he was a friend of peace and religion, but was obliged to make war to defend his territories. He conquered the Latins

Latins

Latins can refer to several groups of people. Its meaning has changed throughout time, and can still refer to different things even today....
, and a number of them he settled on the Aventine Hill

Aventine Hill

The Aventine Hill is one of the Seven hills of Rome on which ancient Rome was built. It belongs to Ripa , the twelfth rione, or ward, of Rome....
formed the origin of the Plebeians.

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Ancus Marcius (r. 640 BC – 616 BC) was the fourth of the Kings of Rome, possibly a legendary figure.

Like Numa

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius , according to legend, was the second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus. After Romulus died, Romans in the city elected a Sabine man to be king, so as to make him loyal to both tribes in Rome....
, his reputed maternal grandfather (he was the son of Marcius II and wife Pompilia), he was a friend of peace and religion, but was obliged to make war to defend his territories. He conquered the Latins

Latins

Aventine Hill

The Aventine Hill is one of the Seven hills of Rome on which ancient Rome was built. It belongs to Ripa , the twelfth rione, or ward, of Rome....
formed the origin of the Plebeians. He fortified the Janiculum

Janiculum

Janiculum is a hill in western Rome. Although the second-tallest hill , in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city....
, threw a wooden bridge across the Tiber

Tiber

The Tiber is the third-longest river in Italy, rising in the Apennine mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing 406 kilometres through Umbria and Lazio to the Tyrrhenian Sea....
, the Pons Sublicius

Pons Sublicius

The earliest known bridge of ancient Rome, Italy, the Pons Sublicius, spanned the Tiber River near the Forum Boarium downstream from the Tiber island, near the foot of the Aventine Hill....
, founded the port of Ostia, established salt-works and built a prison which was founded in 625 B.C. and was used to hold people until they decided what to do with them. Before this time, a popular punishment was to exile people.

Ancus Marcius is in many ways merely a duplicate of Numa, as is it could deduced by his second name, Numa Marcius - the confidant and pontifex of Numa, thus being none other than Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius , according to legend, was the second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus. After Romulus died, Romans in the city elected a Sabine man to be king, so as to make him loyal to both tribes in Rome....
himself, represented as a priest. The identification with Ancus is shown by the legend which makes the latter a bridge-builder (pontifex), the constructor of the first wooden bridge over the Tiber. It is in the exercise of his priestly functions that the resemblance is most clearly shown. Like Numa, Ancus died a natural death. He was the ancestor of the Marcii.

He was succeeded by Lucius Tarquinius Priscus.