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Tarquin the Proud

noun

According to legend, the seventh and last Etruscan king of Rome who was expelled for his cruelty (reigned from 534 to 510 BC). Synonyms: Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Tarquin, Tarquinius, Tarquinius Superbus.

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... all such symptoms and accidents. My answer shall be short, not to tire you with a long needless train of pedantic cant. The belly has no ears, nor is it to be filled with fair words; you shall be answered to content by signs and gestures. As formerly at Rome, Tarquin the Proud, its last king, sent an answer by signs to his son Sextus, who was among the Gabii at Gabii. (Saying this, he pulled the string of a little bell, and Friar John hurried away to the cook-room.) The ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

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