Let us mount our horses and ride for the city!' The Roman poet Ovid recounts that the men further questioned, 'What of the loyalty of the marriage bed? And are we as dear to our wives as they to us?' Lucretia's husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, finally offered a challenge: 'No need of words! Trust deeds! The night is young. Each claimed that his own was the most virtuous. Legend has it that several young nobles, bored with the lack of military action, turned to comparing their wives. The stage for this story is set during a siege of a neighboring town, Ardea, led by Rome's Etruscan king, Tarquinius Superbus.

There are several versions of her story from antiquity, varying in details, but all agree that Lucretia was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, the king's eldest son, and that her consequent plea for vengeance precipitated the revolt which followed. Lucretia appears in the ancient narratives as a paradigm of womanly virtue and as a catalyst for one of the most dramatic events in early Roman history: the expulsion of Etruscan kings and founding of the Roman Republic. Raped by Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son was a catalyst for the Roman overthrow of Etruscan kings and has been the subject of elaborate legend throughout Western history considered a fictional figure by some. 510 bce daughter of Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus, a prefect of Rome married Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, a first consul of Rome. Born in Rome date of birth unknown died in either Collatia or Rome, c.

Then its own brother butted with its horns, and rammed at me, and with that blow I was brought to a fall then thrown on the ground and sorely hurt, as I lay on my back I saw in the sky a thing most mighty and most wonderful-the sun’s flame-beaming orb melted away to the right hand in a new course.Roman matron of historic and legendary fame whose rape, plea for vengeance, and consequent suicide led to the overthrow of kings in Rome and the establishment of the Roman Republic. When now at night’s onset I duly gave my body to rest, soothing weary limbs with sleep, I saw a vision in a dream-a shepherd drove towards me a woolly flock of surpassing beauty two brother-rams were chosen from among them, and I sacrificed the nobler of the two. Proud? He himself speaks of it in Accius’ Brutus- Tarquinius 17–38Ĭicero: What manner of dream was that of Tarquin the. Brutus and Collatinus became the first consuls at Rome, where a republic was now set up. Brutus returned to Ardea, and gained the support of the army, but Tarquin found Rome closed against him. Lucretia’s body was escorted to Rome Brutus, who was tribunus celerum, told the people of the outrage, and Tarquin and his family were banished. Under Brutus’ guidance the people of Collatia resolved to renounce Tarquin and all his house. When Lucretia had told her story and killed herself, Brutus threw off his pretended stupidity, and agreed to help Collatinus in avenging her.

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25 Exin prostratum terra, graviter saucium, resupinum in caelo contueri maximum ac mirificum facinus: dextrorsum orbem flammeum radiatum solis liquier cursu novo. Deinde eius germanum cornibus conitier, in me arietare, eoque ictu me ad casum dari. Tarquinius Quoniam quieti corpus nocturno impetu dedi sopore placans artus languidos, visust in somnis pastor ad me adpellere 20 pecus lanigerum eximia pulchritudine duos consanguineos arietes inde eligi praeclarioremque alterum inmolare me. At Collatia they found Collatinus’ wife Lucretia spinning with her handmaidens, and Sextus, burning with lust for her, outraged her 17–38Ĭicero, de Div., I, 22, 44: Cuius nam modi est Superbi Tarquini somnium? De quo in Bruto Acci loquitur ipse. During the siege, Tarquin’s sons and their cousin Tarquinius Collatinus visited their homes to test the virtue of their wives. While he was besieging Ardea, Tarquin was further troubled by a dream which, according to the soothsayers, foretold that Rome would soon become a commonwealth. But the most definite omen, which foretold that Lucius Junius Brutus (whom all thought to be stupid) would reign at Rome after Tarquin, passed unnoticed. Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, king of Rome, at the height of prosperity, was worried by certain prodigies which boded trouble for him.

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