Then indeed the old age of Servius began to be every day more disquieted, his reign to be more unhappy.

For now the woman looked from one crime to another, and suffered not her husband to rest by night or by day, lest their past murders might go for nothing.

"That what she had wanted was not a person whose wife she might be called, or one with whom she might in silence live a slave; what she had wanted was one who would consider himself worthy of the throne; who would remember that he was the son of Tarquinius Priscus; who would rather possess a kingdom than hope for it.

If you, to whom I consider myself married, are such a one, I address you both as husband and king; but if not, our condition has been changed so far for the worse, as in that person crime is associated with meanness.

Why not prepare yourself?
It is not necessary for you, as for your father, (coming here) from Corinth or Tarquinii, to strive for foreign thrones.