# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T14:49:27.302Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Lucius Tarquinius Priscus reigned for roughly thirty-eight years, long enough to reshape the city he ruled. With Tanaquil, his wife known for prophecy, at his side, he pushed Rome's borders outward through conquest and inward through construction — the Circus Maximus, the Cloaca Maxima, monuments that outlasted the dynasty. He reorganised the Senate and the army, celebrated Rome's first triumphus, and wove Etruscan symbols into Roman life: the fasces, the curule seat, the toga praetexta, the paludamentum. The cognomen Priscus — "the Elder" — was fixed to him later, to separate his name from Tarquinius Superbus, the proud king who came after. He stands at the hinge where legend and institution meet.