Word: tarquin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of Rome's early history was shaped by the Sibyl's dictates, whose records eventually filled nine Sibylline Books. Tarquin the Proud (534-510 B. C.), last of Rome's legendary Kings, wanted to buy the Books but refused to pay the great sum the Sibyl demanded. She destroyed six of the sacred nine. When he paid the original price for the remaining three and took them to Rome, Romans no longer had to make a long journey to learn what they wanted to do. The Cumaean Sibyl and her grotto lapsed into a legend—until...