Note 2853 — BOOK XXXVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STONES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
It is much more likely that he was the son of Tarquin himself, who not improbably, if indeed there ever was such a person, invented the story, to escape the wrath of Queen Tanaquil. This absurd story is mentioned also by Ovid, Arnobius, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.