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ROME UNDER THE KINGS
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king and the plebeians, but the plebeians, were exhausted and embittered by long-continued service in the army and by forced labor in the construction of public works, so that they either did not come to the defense of Targuinius Superbus, or helped the patricians to overthrow him.