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According to ancient Roman authors, Lars Porsena lived towards the end of the 6
th century BC, around the time the Roman monarchy was overthrown. As a matter of fact, Lars Porsena’s tale is closely associated with Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (more commonly known as Tarquin the Proud), who ruled Rome from 534 to 509 BC.
Tarquin was the seventh and last king of Rome and is regarded today as a semi-legendary figure. According to the ancient Romans, Tarquin was either the son or grandson of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and the son-in-law of Servius Tullius. The former was Rome’s fifth king, whilst the latter, its sixth.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus narrates a reversal of political fortune.
By the ancient laws, the people had control over the three most important and vital matters: they elected the magistrates, both civil and military; they sanctioned and repealed laws; and they declared war and made peace.
In discussing and deciding these matters, they voted by curiae, and citizens of the smallest means had an equal vote with those of the greatest. But as the rich were few in number and the poor much more numerous, the latter carried everything by a majority of votes. The reformer king Servius Tullius, observing this, transferred this preponderance of votes from the poor to the rich. For whenever he thought proper to have magistrates elected, a law considered, or war to be declared, he assembled the people by centuries instead of by curiae. And the first centuries that he called to express their opinion were those with the highest rating, consisting of the eighteen centuries of cavalry and the eight