Placing his sword against her, Sextus woke Lucretia with a low voice and declared his love for her. Sextus waited until everyone else was asleep before taking up his sword and went to Lucretia's bedroom. Lucretia received him graciously and granted him the hospitality according to his status as the son of the king. Collatinus was, at this time, away at Ardea. It was then that Sextus was said to have been seduced both by Lucretia’s beauty and virtue.Ī few days later, Sextus returned to the house of Collatinus. Finally, they arrived at the house of Collatinus and found Lucretia, with her servants, working on her spinning in the middle of her house. They visited each of their houses and found every single one of their wives getting ready for a night out. The men agreed and they all went on horseback to the city.
Collatinus finally declared that no one was more worthy than his wife, Lucretia.Īs his friends scoffed, Collatinus invited them to ride their horses to his house and see for themselves what his wife was doing at home. The men started talking about their wives and, fueled by wine, each of them praised his own wife excessively. Among his guests was Tarquinius Collatinus, one of his distant kinsmen. One day, Sextus invited his friends for supper and drinks at his house. Collatinus withdrew with all his property to Lavinium, and Publius Valerius Publicola was elected in his place, who then chose Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus, Lucretia's aging father as the other consul, upon Brutus' death.Sextus Tarquinius was the son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome who was engaged in the siege of Ardea at the time.
His colleague, Brutus, escaped this stigma, despite also being a scion of the dynasty, because his family name was Junius and not Tarquinius. He withdrew from Rome, taking himself and his possessions to Lavinium. Livy claims that the people could not endure the rule of any of the hated race of the Tarquins, and thus the innocent Collatinus was persuaded by his colleague and the other nobles to resign his office and retire from Rome. Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus joined Lucius Junius Brutus in the first shared consulship.Ĭollatinus's time as consul was brief. After overthrowing the seventh king of Rome, the Roman Republic was founded. This revolt was led by the aforementioned Lucius Junius Brutus (believed to be an ancestor of the Marcus Brutus who conspired to kill Julius Caesar almost 500 years later). The last of these kings, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, was overthrown in the year 510 BCE after his son Sextus Tarquinius had raped Collatinus's wife, Lucretia. Thus the son was surnamed Collatinus to indicate his place of birth or origin or nearest association.Īccording to legend, ancient Rome had seven kings. Collatinus derived his cognomen thus his father Egerius was placed in command of the town Collatia which had been captured by Tarquinius Priscus. He is also the husband of Lucretia, the noblewoman raped by Sextus Tarquinius.Ĭollatinus was the son of Egerius, himself the son of Aruns (son of Demaratus) brother of Tarquinius Priscus (who was the fifth king of Rome). 6th century BC) was one of the four leaders of the revolution which overthrew the Roman monarchy, and became one of the first two consuls of Rome in 509 BC, together with Lucius Junius Brutus.
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