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Servius Tullius, sixth of the Kings of Rome, described in one
account as originally a slave, is said to have married a daughter of Tarquin, and to
have gained the throne by the contrivance of Tanaquil, his mother-in-law. Another
legend represented him as a soldier of fortune originally named Mastarna, from Etruria, who attached himself to Cæles Vibenna, the founder of an Etruscan city on the Cælian Hill. Servius
included within one circuit the five separately fortified hills which were then inhabited and added two more, thus completing the
"Septimontium"; the space thus enclosed he divided into four "regiones", the Suburana, Esquilina, Collina, and Palatina.
His legislation was extremely distasteful to the patrician order, and his reign of forty-four years was brought to a close by
a conspiracy headed by his son-in-law Tarquinius
Superbus. The street in which Tullia drove her car over her father's body ever after bore the name of the "Vicus
Sceleratus."
Original text from a paper copy of the 9th edition EB
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