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Often appears with: war against the volsci · temple of jupiter · suessa pometia · strategy and the aims of war · public finance and debt · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: reflection (1) · curiosity (1)
Livy contrasts Tarquin’s tyranny in peace with competent generalship, describing campaigns against the Volsci, conquest of Suessa Pometia, and his wealth-funded plan to build the Temple of Jupiter.
a pair of companies to make single companies, and out of single companies to make a pair: and when the companies had thus been doubled, he appointed centurions over them. Nor was Tarquin, though a tyrannical prince in time of peace, an incompetent general in war; nay, he would have equalled his predecessors in that art, had not his degeneracy in other ways likewise detracted from his merit in this respect. He first …