1. L. Tarquinius rēx Serviī fautōrēs aliōsque invīsōs [= quōs ōderat] interfēcit aut in exsilium/exilium [< exsul] ēgit.
2. Servium sepelīrī vetuit, cum 'Rōmulum quoque īnsepultum periisse' dictitāret [= dīceret].
3. Patrum numerum imminuit [= minuit], ut senātōrum paucitāte [< paucī] senātus contemptus [= contemnendus] esset.
4. Senātum dē rē pūblicā nōn cōnsulēbat, sed suīs cōnsiliīs rem pūblicam administrābat [= regēbat].
5. Cum Tarquinius Octāviō Mamiliō, prīncipī Latīnōrum, fīliam nūptum dedisset, auctōritās [= potentia] eius magna erat inter Latīnōs.
6. Latīnī, cum iussū rēgis prīmā lūce ad concilium convēnissent nec rēx ipse adesset, īrātī in rēgem invectī sunt [= rēgī maledīxērunt].
7. Turnus Herdōnius, vir īnsolēns [= audāx et superbus], 'Haud mīrum est' inquit 'eī 'Superbō' datum cognōmen: an quicquam [= quidquam] superbius est quam ēlūdere sīc omne nōmen Latīnum!'
8. Postrēmō paulō ante sōlis occāsum Tarquinius intervēnit - atque Latīnōs posterō diē eōdem [= in eundem locum] convenīre iussit!
9. Turnus vērō, invidiā [= īrā et odiō] commōtus, minās [< minārī] in rēgem iactāvit [< iacere].
10. Itaque Tarquinius Turnō necem māchinātus est [= clam excōgitāvit].
11. Gladiīs multīs in hospitium [< hospes] Turnī clam illātīs, rēx eum falsō accūsāvit 'necem sibi parāre'.
12. Cum gladiī abditī prōtraherentur [= prōferrentur], enimvērō [= profectō] rēs manifēsta [<> dubia] visa est.
13. Itaque Turnus īnsōns [= quī nōn dēlīquerat] sine iūdiciō suppliciō novō affectus est: in aquam mersus crāte super iniectā.
14. Collaudātīs [= laudātīs] Latīnīs, Tarquinius haud difficulter [<> facile] iīs persuāsit ut foedus cum Rōmānīs renovārent.
15. Legiō cōnstat ex decem cohortibus, cohors ex tribus manipulīs.