Servius Tullius
the 6th king of Rome. According to the tradition he was the son of a slave given by the elder Tarquin to Tanaquil, his wife. He married Tarquin's daughter, and on the death of his father-in-law (578 в. c. according to the usual chronology) he was raised to the throne. He defeated the Veientines SESAME and the Etruscans, and divided the popu- lation of Rome into tribes, instituting at the same time the comitia centuriata and built several temples. According to the common story Servius married his two daughters to the grandsons of his fatherin-law; the elder to Tarquin, and the younger to Aruns. The wife of Aruns murdered her own husband to unite herself to Tarquin, who had assassinated his wife. Servius was murdered by Tarquin, and his own daughter Tullia ordered her chariot to be driven over the mangled body of her father (534 в. c.).