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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 106 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCRETIA , a See also:

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

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