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Lucius junius collatinus12/25/2022 This is dominated by the ‘patrician’ families, a closed hereditary elite of senior dynasties who dominate the early consulship. Power is now in the overall hands of the Senate, the former advisory body of noblemen supposedly create by Romulus. The official story has the new Republic exiling all royals and banning the names of Tarquinius and King - which is at odds with the leadership of the new state by one consul with that name and the other related to the exiled ruler.Ī dual supreme magistracy, the consulship, is created with its duration limited to one year. Tarquinius and family are expelled, probably by a group of the leading noble ‘patrician’ clans and supposedly after the rape of Lucretia by Tarquinius’ son Sextus revolt led by the king’s nephew Lucius Iunius Brutus and his ally Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus. ?509/8 BC Alternatively, Dionysius of Halicarnassus dates it to 508/7 and Polybius to 508 an inscription in Rome dated to Flavius’ aedilship in 303 dated that year as being 204 since the expulsion of the king. Publius Valerius Poplicola was appointed consul suffectus in the place of Collatinus, and the elderly Spurius Lucretius in place of Brutus but he died soon after, and Marcus Horatius Pulvillus became consul in his place, the fifth and final consul of the first year of the Republic.Text #9260 Venning. Fearing what might become of him should he refuse the popular demand, Collatinus laid down the consulship and went into exile at Lanuvium.īrutus, who as the king's nephew was even closer to the royal house, was spared the same indignity, as a part of the Junia gens but he fell in battle the same year against his the king's forces. Collatinus was dumbstruck when Brutus, his colleague and cousin, called upon him to resign, but resisted until his father-in-law, Lucretius, added his voice to the chorus. Brutus and Collatinus were the first consuls, and set about the defense of the city.Ĭollatinus' ascendency was short-lived although he himself had suffered at the hands of the king, and ushered in the Republic, he soon became the object of revulsion from those who would not abide any of the Tarquins in power at Rome. While the king was away on a campaign, the conspirators barred the gates of Rome and established a republican government, headed by two consuls, so that one man should not be master of Rome. They were supported by Brutus, the king's nephew, and others who had suffered various cruelties at the hands of the king and his sons. Main article: Overthrow of the Roman monarchyĮnraged by his cousin's deed, Collatinus and his father-in-law brought news of the crime before the people. Despite their entreaties and protests of her innocence, Lucretia then plunged a dagger into her breast in expiation of her shame. After his departure, Lucretia sent for her husband and father, and recounted the events to them. Forcing himself upon Lucretia, Sextus threatened to kill her, together with a slave, and tell her husband that he had caught her in the act of adultery with the slave, unless she should accede to his desire. According to legend, while Collatinus was away from home, his cousin, Sextus Tarquinius, son of the king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, came to his house by night. The surname Collatinus was derived from this town.Ĭollatinus married Lucretia, daughter of Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus. Through an accident, Arruns had been born into poverty, but when his uncle subdued the Latin town of Collatia, he was placed in command of the Roman garrison there. Collatinus was the son of Arruns Tarquinius, better known as Egerius, a nephew of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth King of Rome.
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