tarquininus

Updated: May 28, 2025

And before this he had made Lucius Tarquininus, although forced by his poverty to serve on foot, his master of the knights. Here, then, we see what honour was paid in Rome to poverty, and how four acres of land sufficed to support so good and great a man as Cincinnatus.

Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius