Aruns (son of Demaratus)

For other people of that name, see Aruns.

Aruns Tarquinius was the second son of Demaratus the Corinthian, who migrated to the Etruscan city of Tarquinii in the 7th century. He died before the birth of his son Egerius and within the lifetime of his father. His brother, Lucumo, the future King of Rome, inherited all of the estate of Demaratus.

His son was Egerius, first cousin to Tarquinia, whose husband was Marcus Junius Brutus, with their son being Lucius Junius Brutus, the founder of the Roman Republic.

Tarquinius family tree

• Stemma Tarquiniorum

Sources

• Livy i.34.2
• Livy i.57.6f
• Livy, Ab Urbe Condita I.46-48, 59
• Ovid Fasti 2.725ff.
• Dionys, iii, 46
• William Smith (ed) (1870), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 1 p. 378, #1.
• The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of The History of Rome from Its Foundations By Livy, Aubrey De Sélincourt, Stephen P. Oakley, p. 72, ISBN 0140448098

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.