e himself, having selected and
armed some of the young men, who readily gave in their names, set out
for Ardea to the camp to excite the army against the king: the command
in the city he leaves to Lucretius, who had been already appointed
prefect of the city by the king. During this tumult Tullia fled from her
house, both men and women cursing her wherever she went, and invoking on
her the furies the avengers of parents.

60. News of these transactions having reached the camp, when the king,
alarmed at this sudden revolution, was going to Rome to quell the
commotions, Brutus, for he had notice of his approach, turned out of the
way, that he might not meet him; and much about the same time Brutus and
Tarquin arrived by different routes, the one at Ardea, the other at
Rome. The gates were shut against Tarquin, and an act of banishment
passed against him; the deliverer of the state the camp received with
great joy, and the king's sons were expelled. Two of them followed their
father, and went into banishment to Caere, a city of Etruria. Sextus
Tarquin, having gone to Gabii, as to his own kingdom, was slain by the
avengers of the old feuds, which he had raised against himself by his
rapines and murders. Lucius Tarquin the Proud reigned twenty-five years:
the regal form of government continued from the building of the city to
this period of its deliverance, two hundred and forty-four years. Two
consuls, viz. Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus,
were elected by the prefect of the city at the comitia by centuries,
according to the commentaries of Servius Tullius.

BOOK II.

_Brutus binds the people by oath, never to suffer any king to reign
at Rome, obliges Tarquinius Collatinus, his colleague, to resign
the consulship, and leave the state; beheads some young noblemen,
and among the rest his own and his sister's sons, for a conspiracy
to receive the kings into the city. In a war against the Veientians
and Tarquiniensians, he engages in single combat with Aruns the son
of Tarquin the Proud, and expires at the same time with his
adversary. The ladies mourn for him a whole year. The Capitol
dedicated. Porsena, king of Clusium, undertakes a war in favour of
the Tarquins. Bravery of Horatius Cocles, and of Mucius. Porsena
concludes a peace on the receipt of hostages. Conduct of Cloelia.
Ap. Claudius removes from the country of the Sabines to Rom