Death of Ancus, Election of Tarquinius Prxscus一 Ancus reip-ra.ed twenty-four years- of his %了一J . ._ ..-J predecessors in ability and reputation, both in the field and at home. His sons had now almost reached manhood. T arquzn was all. the more anxious frthelectionof thei r_ the eection o如new king to be held as soon as possible. At the time fixed for it he sent the boys out of the way on a hunting expedition. He is said to have been the first who canvassed for the crown and delivered a set speech to secure thethat he was not mak念erest of the pan unheard-of踩en it he assertedest, he was not the first foreignerY 7吵o， aspired to t平.仰man. throne; were this so, any one might creel surprise ana inaignatxon. .taut， he wasr y势“ third.Tatius was not only a foreigner, out was made King after he had been their enemy;Numa, an entire stranger to the City, had been called to the throne without any seeking it on his part. As to himsel几as soon as he was his own master. he had J removed to Rome with his wife and his whole fortune: he had r lived 'at Rome， for a larger part of。 the_ period during which men discharge the functionsY 7 1 ti。‘citizenship than he had passed in hisY 'Y ^ } " old country;lie hack learnttile laws of长ome, the ceremonial rites of Rome, both civil and military, under Ancus himself, a sufficient teacher;he had been second to service towards the king;he had not yielded to the king him.-self in generous treatment of others. Whilst he was statinz these facts, wnicn were certainly true, the .KomanpeoPle with enthusiastic unanimity elected him king. Though in all other respects an excellent man，his ambition， to seep: the crown, ionowea him. on to the tnr of strengthening himself quite as much as of he made a hundred new senators. These were afterwards called “the Lesser :Houses”and formed a body of uncompromising supporters of the king, through whose kindness they had entered the senate. Institution of the“.Ludi Romani."----The first war he in was with the Latins. carried off a greater amount of plunder than could have expected from the slight interest shown in the war. Alter had been brought in wagons to Rome, he celebrated Games with greater splendour and on a larger scale than predecessors. Then for the first time was marked tllchisforto what is now the“Circus Maximus." were allotted the patricians and knights where they could each build for themselves stands----called “fori "-from which to view the Games. These stands were raised on wooden orons. out at the top, twelve feet high. The contests were horse-racing., , , r -. and boxing, the horses axed boxc ;mostly Drought from Etruria. They were at first celebrated on occasions of especial solemni 七y; subsequently they became an annual fixture, and were -cal led indifferently the“ Roman”or the“Great Games." This king also divided the ground round the Forum into building sites arcades and shops were put up.