Tarquin

Family: Tarquin's forces · Role: opposing commander · First appears: Coriolanus · Act II, Scene II

Life events

• Coriolanus struck Tarquin down and earned Rome’s oak crown for his battlefield valor.(Coriolanus · Act II, Scene II · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Coriolanus
  • “At sixteen years, When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought Beyond the mark of others. Our then dictator, Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight When with his Amazonian chin he drove The bristled lips before him. He bestrid An o’erpressed Roman and i’ th’ Consul’s view Slew three opposers. Tarquin’s self he met And struck him on his knee. In that day’s feats, When he might act the woman in the scene, He proved best man i’ th’ field and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak.”

Coriolanus · Act II, Scene II

• enemies with Coriolanus “Tarquin’s self he met And struck him on his knee.”

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Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Roman Plays. Made with Rho MD.