Tarquitius
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Tarquitium Proper-name noun: masculine genitive plural, Proper-name noun: masculine accusative singular of Tarquitius
- an Etruscan proper name; so esp. the Etruscan Tarquitius, who wrote on divination, Macr. S. 3, 7, 2; Lact. 1, 10, 2; Plin. ind. libri 2.
- —Hence, Tar-quĭtĭānus, a, um, adj., of Tarquitius: libri, Amm.25, 2, 7.
1. A Roman writer, who translated from the Etruscan a work entitled Ostenturium Tuscum. (Plin. H. N. in Catal. Auctor. lib. ii.; Macr. 3.7; Serv. ad Virg. Ecl. iv 43; Festus, p. 274, ed. Müller; Müller, Etrusker, vol. ii. p. 36.)
2. L. Tarquitius, mentioned by Cicero in B. C. 50. (Cic. Att. 6.8.4.)
3. Q. Taiqutius, occurs only on coins, of which a specimen is annexed. The obverse represents a woman's head with c. Annivs, and the reverse Victory in a biga, with Q. TARQUITI. A similar coin is figured in Vol. I. p. ]80, with the name of L. Fabius on the obverse; and Eckhel supposes that Q. Tarquitius and L. Fabius were the quaestors of C. Annius, who fought in Spain against Sertorius in B. C. 82. (Eckhel, vol. v. pp. 134, 322.)
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