There was a tradition that the Delphic oracle was consulted as early as the period of the kings of Rome during the reign of Tarquinius Superbus.

Rome's seventh and last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, after witnessing a snake near his palace, sent a delegation including two of his sons to consult the oracle.

Tarquinius ' sons were Lucius Tarquinius Superbus and Aruns Tarquinius, both of whom married the daughters of Servius Tullius, named Tulliae.

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus ( 535 – 496 BC ) was the legendary seventh and final King of Rome, reigning from 535 BC until the popular uprising in 509 BC that led to the establishment of the Roman Republic.

According to Roman tradition, Tarquinius Superbus gained the kingship by ordering the assassination of his much-admired predecessor, Servius Tullius.

Tarquinius Superbus makes himself King ; from The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett ( c. 1850s )

Tarquinius Superbus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, depicting the king receiving a laurel ; the poppies in the foreground refer to the # Cultural references | " tall poppy " allegory ( see below )

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The incident kindled the flames of dissatisfaction over the tyrannical methods of the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.

Ancus Marcius was succeeded by Lucius Tarquinius Priscus who was killed by the sons of Ancus Marcius.

King Ancus Marcius himself noticed Tarquinius and, by his will, appointed Tarquinius guardian of his own sons.

According to Livy, Tarquinius increased the number of the Senate by the addition of 100 men from the minor leading families.

Tarquinius took the Latin town of Apiolae by storm and took great booty from there back to Rome.

Tarquin's mother, Queen Tanaquil, had aided in the selection of Servius Tullius as heir to the Roman throne when Lucius Tarquinius Priscus was assassinated by the sons of the previous king, Ancus Marcius, in 579 BC.

The two stories agree on this point: Livy's version is: By this blood-most pure before the outrage wrought by the king's son-I swear, and you, O gods, I call to witness that I will drive hence Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, together with his cursed wife and his whole blood, with fire and sword and every means in my power, and I will not suffer them or any one else to reign in Rome.

The 44-year reign of Servius came to an abrupt end when he was assassinated in a conspiracy led by his own daughter, Tullia, and her husband, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.

Four men, led by Lucius Junius Brutus, and including also Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus incited a revolution, and as a result Tarquinius and his family were deposed and expelled from Rome in 509 B. C.

According to Livy, he reigned for 44 years, until murdered by his treacherous daughter Tullia and son-in-law Tarquinius Superbus.

Ancient sources infer him as protégé, rather than adopted son, as he married Tarquinius ' and Tanaquil's daughter, named by some sources as Gegania.

In their minds, he had usurped their rightful place by taking the crown, although they remained hopeful that they might succeed to the throne after Tarquinius ' death.

Forces of Veii and Tarquinii, led by the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus defeated in the Battle of Silva Arsia by the Roman army.

The building was supposedly begun by king Tarquinius Priscus, completed by the last king ( Tarquinius Superbus ) and inaugurated in the early days of the Roman Republic ( September 13, 509 BC ).

The fecundating power of sacred fire is testified in Latin mythology in one version of the birth of Romulus, that of the birth of king Servius Tullius ( in which his mother Ocresia becomes pregnant after sitting upon a phallus that appeared among the ashes of the ara of god Vulcanus, by order of Tanaquil wife of king Tarquinius Priscus ) and that of the birth of Caeculus, the founder of Praeneste.

His story was immediately famous and he became the augur of the king ( see above the episode with king Tarquinius narrated by Livy ).

Upon the death of Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius Priscus addressed the Comitia Curiata and convinced them that he should be elected king over Marcius ' natural sons, who were still only in their teenage years.

Tarquin's parents were the fifth king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and his wife Tanaquil.

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, last king of Rome, being engaged in the siege of Ardea, sent his son, Sextus Tarquinius, on a military errand to Collatia.

By kinship he was a Tarquin on his mother's side, the son of Tarquinia, daughter of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, the third king before last.

* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul, celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.

According to Livy, Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and final king of Rome, judged capital criminal cases without the advice of counsellors, thereby creating fear amongst those who might think to oppose him.

Tarquinius Priscus was the fifth king of Rome and the first of Etruscan birth.

The seventh and final king of Rome was Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.

Roman and Greek sources describe his servile origins and later marriage to a daughter of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's first Etruscan king, who was assassinated in 579 BC.

In consequence of this " tragic crime " and his hubristic arrogance as king, Tarquinius was eventually removed.

She was given to Tanaquil, wife of king Tarquinius, and though slave was treated with the respect due her former status.

The sons of Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius ' predecessor as king of Rome, remained angry at Tarquinius during his reign.

* 585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.

* 616 BC: Lucius Tarquinius Priscus becomes king of Rome.