Neque ea res...

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This from Orberg LLPSI Cap XLIV.

Servius, quamquam iam usu haud dubie regnum possidebat, tamen — quia L. Tarquinius, filius Tarquinii Prisci, dicebat ‘eum iniussu populi regnare’ — ausus est ad populum referre ‘vellent iuberentne se regnare?’ Tantoque consensu quanto haud quisquam alius ante rex est declaratus.

Neque ea res Tarquinio spem affectandi regni minuit…

Nor did this (fact) diminish the hope, with which Tarquin desired, power…

I’m thinking regni is genitive…?

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Yes, I would say the same, “the hope of obtaining power”.

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Thanks.