Editing Ancus Marcius (section)

==First acts as King==
According to [[Livy]], Ancus's first act as king was to order the [[Pontifex Maximus]] to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of [[Numa Pompilius]] to be displayed to the public on wooden tablets, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.<ref name="Livy1:32"/><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ihne|first=Wilhelm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3d3QAAAAMAAJ&q=Ancus+Marcius&pg=PA43|title=The History of Rome|date=1871|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Company|language=en}}</ref> When Tullus was king, he repealed the Numa-created religious edicts that had been in place before.<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Otis |first1=Lise |title=The Numan tradition and its uses in the literature Rome's 'Golden Age' |date=2001 |id={{ProQuest|304770134}} |url=https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/6682x566h }}</ref>