Aruns (Tarquinius)

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Aruns was the brother of Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome, according to Tacitus.

During battle, he saw Lucius Junius Brutus, who had led the overthrow of Tarquinius and founded the Roman Republic, at the head of the Roman army, wearing the royal robes which he considered belonged to his house alone. He and Brutus fought and killed each other.

Aruns was also in Dante's inferno. He was in the eighth circle, and the fourth pouch of hell.

[edit] Tarquinius family tree

Stemma Tarquiniorum

[edit] References

  • Livy i.34.2
  • Livy i.57.6f
  • Livy, Ab Urbe Condita I.46-48, 59
  • Ov.Fast.2.725ff.
  • Dionys, iii, 46
  • William Smith (ed) (1870), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 1 p. 378, #1.
  • The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of The History of Rome from Its Foundations By Livy, Aubrey De Sélincourt, Stephen P. Oakley, p. 72, ISBN 0140448098

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