Lucius Tarquinius Superbus

Reading notes

• On the Ends of Good and Evil §3.75 called a king than Tarquinius

  Tarquinius Superbus, Rome's last king, expelled in 509 BC, who 'could rule neither himself nor his own.' The Stoic paradox holds that only the wise man truly deserves the title of king, since true rule is self-mastery.

• Second Philippic §87 Was Lucius Tarquinius therefore driven out

  L. Tarquinius Superbus, Rome's last king, expelled in 509 BC; with Spurius Cassius, Spurius Maelius, and Marcus Manlius, all killed on suspicion of aiming at kingship, he heads Cicero's roll of would-be tyrants destroyed.

• Third Philippic §8 with Tarquin expelled

  Tarquinius Superbus, Rome's last king, driven out in 509 BC; Cicero makes Antony a new Tarquin throughout sections 8-11, and Decimus Brutus a new liberator like the founder Lucius Brutus.

• Tusculan Disputations §1.88 it could be said of Tarquin, when he had been driven from his kingdom

  Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome, expelled in 509 BC; a living man can meaningfully be said to be 'deprived' of a kingdom, but a dead man cannot, since deprivation requires a subject who feels the loss.

• Tusculan Disputations §3.27 what was more shameless than Tarquin

  Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Rome's last king, expelled in 509 BC, who tried to regain his throne with Etruscan and Latin arms and finally died of old age and grief at Cumae. He exemplifies the man undone by craving for lost power.