Tarquinius, For his prowde and sterne behauiour, surnamed Superbus, was the seuenth and last king of Rome. He maried Tulla the daughter of Sernius Tnllus, a woman of a naughtie and cruell nature: by whose meanes he killed hir owne father, and by that horrible murder wickedlye attayned that kingdome, which after cruelly hee gouerned. Yet was he valiant in warre, and stoutly repressed his enimies. When his sonne crafcilye hadde gotten into the citie of the Gabiens, and sent a messenger to him to knowe his mynde what he should further doe, hee walked vp and downe his garden (where the matter was declared to him) and gaue the messenger no aunswere at all, but onely with a wande that he had in his hande, did strike off the toppes of % highest poppies that grew by the alley: and so without any word spoken, caused the messenger to be dismissed. The partye marueyling thereat, returned to his sonne, and declared how his father had vsed him. But he, by his fathers gesture vnderstanding his meaning, didde behead and put to death the cheefe and highest of the Citie. This king was afterwarde expelled out of Rome with all that were of his stocke or line, because his sonne Sertus hadde wickedlye rauished the noble and chast matrone Lucrece. Vide Lucretia.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Tarquĭnĭi, ōrum, m., a very ancient and important town of Etruria, now Trachina, Liv. 1, 34; 1, 47; 2, 4; 26, 3; 27, 4; Cic. Rep. 2, 19, 34.—Hence, A. Tarquĭ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tarquinii, Tarquinian.—As subst.: Tarquĭ-nĭus, ii, m., Tarquin, the name of the fifth king of Rome, who came from Tarquinii, Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 35 sq.; Liv. 1, 34 sq.; and of his descendants, esp. the last Roman king, Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46; 2, 29, 51; Liv. 1, 46 sq.; Ov. F. 2, 687; Hor. C. 1, 12, 35; id. S. 1, 6, 13; Verg. A. 8, 646.—Hence, 2. Tarquĭ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the family of the Tarquins, Tarquinian: nomen, Liv. 1, 47: factio, id. 2, 18.—B. Tar-quĭnĭensis, e, adj., of or belonging to the town of Tarquinii, Tarquinian: ager, Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50; id. Caecin. 4, 11; cf. absol.: in Tarquiniensi,
in the district of Tarquinii
, Varr. R. R. 3, 12, 1: lacus, Plin. 2, 95, 96, 209: fundus, Val. Max. 5, 3, 3: serva, Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 37.—As subst.: Tarquĭnĭenses, ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Tarquinii, the Tarquinians, Liv. 2, 6 sq.; 5, 16; 7, 12 sq.; Plin. 3, 5, 8, 52.