tarquinius dead ; hanuna , her best friend once in tarchna , dead in childbirth , twenty years ago now ; larthia , who had gone to spina with her second husband , and last time tanaquil heard , was a fat grandmother of a tribe of little northerners was it six daughters she 'd had , or seven , and all of them with their mother 's fertile nature ; and there was lecne , who 'd gone to greece with his father and never came back , and if she knew anything was probably half-ruling some small city-state either that or dead ; and metli spitu , who had won the girls ' long distance race one year , had died of fever last year .