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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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people held him. This was satisfactory enough to the patricians^at first; but after a while, Tarquins cruelty was visited not only upon thepoor plebeians, but upon the patricians as well. Tarquin was determined thatno man should do to him as he had done to Servius. All those who couldboast of wealth, or power, or ability, were marked as his victims. Privatefeuds were stirred to flame by his cunning. Party was incited against party.Senator after senator was slain, and his property taken by the king. Thepatricians had digged a pit, and now had fallen into it. All Rome groaned under the yoke. Rebellion became only a question oftime and opportunity. It was not, however, any crime of King Tarquin him-self, which led directly to his overthrow; but a wicked deed performed by hisson, Sextus Tarquin. The king and the army were absent at war, and theyounger captains seated in their camp began a jesting discussion as to how,during their absence, their wives might be engaged at home. A wager fol-
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Rome—Expulsion of Tarquin 307 lowed; and, taking their horses, Sextus Tarquin, his cousin Tarquin Collatinus,and a few others, galloped away to Rome. Bursting suddenly in upon theirwives, they discovered one lolling in idleness, another engaged in riotous feast-ing; but when they came to the home of Collatinus, they found his wife Lucrecesitting in simple, matronly dignity among her maidens, spinning. So Colla-tinus won the wager, and rode back to camp among his comrades in highfeather. He had no prevision of the sad result. The black heart of Sextus hadbecome inflamed with love for Lucrece. He returned secretly to Rome andembraced her. Feeling herself dishonored by his caresses, she sent for herhusband and relatives, told them what had occurred, and stabbed herself to theheart before them all. Among the relatives who stood by, was one Lucius Junius, called Brutus,which meant the dullard. He had been a youth of great brightness and prom-ise ; but as he grew up he pretended to become

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