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LUCRETIA  , a

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Roman
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lady, wife of
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Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, distinguished for her beauty and domestic virtues . Having been outraged by Sextus Tarquinius, one of the sons of Tarquinius Superbus, she informed her
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father and her
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husband, and, having exacted an
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oath of vengeance from them, stabbed herself to
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death . Lucius
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Junius.
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Brutus, her husband's
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cousin, put himself at the
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head of the
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people, drove out the Tarquins, and established a
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republic . The accounts of this tradition in later writers
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present many points of divergence .
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Livy i . 57-59;
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Dion .
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Halle. iv . 64-67, 70, 82;
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Ovid,
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Fasti, ii . 721-852 ; Dio
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Cassius, frag . 11 (
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Bekker) ; G . Cornewall
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Lewis, Credibility of
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Early Roman
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History, i .

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