I meant their, not there.

You don't even need to look all the way back to Arenas to see a weird relation between the Romans and kings. In Livy 1.16 you see two competing concepts of how the legendary founder of Rome and first king, Romulus, was either taken up to the heavens by the gods or torn apart by senators.

Despite a general love and admiration for Romulus, the deeds of the last king, Tarquinius Superbus, were so unforgivable that most Romans would never consider actually having a king, most likely due to the competition between Roman families. How could these equals suddenly decide that their peer was better than them and good enough to be king. In fact, aiming to be king was a pretty common accusation to make against political opponents, as we see with Julius Caesar (see Suetonius) and Tiberius Gracchus (see Plutarch).