Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (reigned 616-579 bc), according to tradition, the fifth king of Rome and the son of a Corinthian refugee who is said to have settled at Tarquinii in Etruria. Tarquinius was the guardian of the sons of the fourth king of Rome, Ancus Marcius (reigned 640-617 bc), and supplanted them on the death of their father. Public works attributed to Tarquinius were the construction of the great sewers, called cloacae; the laying out of the Circus Maximus; and the founding of the temple of the Roman deity Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill (Monte Capitoline). He is said to have instituted the Roman games, and he fought successfully against the Sabines, who were a neighboring people.
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