tarquinius was livid about the incident , but once the men had been punished ( which she would n't have done , or only by assigning them to a task commensurate with their abilities , which only a clever man would have regarded as punishment , and they were n't smart ) , he lost interest in tracking down who had ballsed up on the rostering ; manius , prompted by tanaquil , did find out , and asked for the officers who had let the two stupids into the palatine to be reassigned , but his orders were countermanded by tarquinius , whose friend the father of one of the officers had been .