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TARQUINIA. 135
nepotive ejus {nam et hoc inter auctores discrepat)
insertus Servius Tullius, si ■ nostros sequimur captiva
natus Ocresia, si Tuscos, Cceli quondam Vibenna
sodalis fidelissimus, omnisque ejus casus comes.
Postquam varia fortuna exactus, cum omnibus reli-
quiis Cceliani exercitus Etruria excessit. Montem
Ccelium occupavit, et e duce suo Cozlio ita appellatu.
Mutatoque nomine {nam Tusce Mastarna ei nomen
erat) appellatus est ut dixi, et regnum surnma cum
republican utilitate obtinuit."
" This city was formerly governed by kings, who
were not always succeeded by natives, but some-
times by strangers and even foreigners. Thus Numa
succeeded Romulus, and was a stranger, though he
came from the neighbouring Sabine country. Thus,
after the traitorous death of Ancus Martius, Tarqui-
nius Priscus was called to the crown, the son of
Demaratus, a Corinthian by a Tarquinian mother of
illustrious birth, but compelled by poverty to make
an unequal alliance! Being excluded from the pos-
sibility of distinguished preferment at home, he
migrated to Rome, where he obtained the royal
dignity. Between Tarquinius Priscus and his son
or grandson (for authors are not agreed as to this)
Superbus, Servius Tullius reigned. According to
the Roman tradition, he was the son of Ocresia, a
captive, but if we are to believe the Etruscan ac-
counts, he was the most faithful friend and compa-
nion in every vicissitude of Cceles Vibenna. After
suffering many changes of fortune, he quitted
Etruria with the remnant of Vibenna's army,
nepotive ejus {nam et hoc inter auctores discrepat)
insertus Servius Tullius, si ■ nostros sequimur captiva
natus Ocresia, si Tuscos, Cceli quondam Vibenna
sodalis fidelissimus, omnisque ejus casus comes.
Postquam varia fortuna exactus, cum omnibus reli-
quiis Cceliani exercitus Etruria excessit. Montem
Ccelium occupavit, et e duce suo Cozlio ita appellatu.
Mutatoque nomine {nam Tusce Mastarna ei nomen
erat) appellatus est ut dixi, et regnum surnma cum
republican utilitate obtinuit."
" This city was formerly governed by kings, who
were not always succeeded by natives, but some-
times by strangers and even foreigners. Thus Numa
succeeded Romulus, and was a stranger, though he
came from the neighbouring Sabine country. Thus,
after the traitorous death of Ancus Martius, Tarqui-
nius Priscus was called to the crown, the son of
Demaratus, a Corinthian by a Tarquinian mother of
illustrious birth, but compelled by poverty to make
an unequal alliance! Being excluded from the pos-
sibility of distinguished preferment at home, he
migrated to Rome, where he obtained the royal
dignity. Between Tarquinius Priscus and his son
or grandson (for authors are not agreed as to this)
Superbus, Servius Tullius reigned. According to
the Roman tradition, he was the son of Ocresia, a
captive, but if we are to believe the Etruscan ac-
counts, he was the most faithful friend and compa-
nion in every vicissitude of Cceles Vibenna. After
suffering many changes of fortune, he quitted
Etruria with the remnant of Vibenna's army,