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104 TITUS LIVIUS’ , Book I.
the city to Lucretius, who had before been appointed to
the office of prasfect, by the king.
During this uproar, Tullia made the best of her way
out of the city; both sexes, wherever she went, pursuing
her with curses, and calling on the furies of her parents
to overtake her.
CHAP. LX.
Brutus and Collatimis created Consuls.
THE news of these transactions having reached the
camp, the king alarmed with this sudden revolution,
goes to Rome to quell the commotions. Brutus being
advised of his motions, turned out of the way, that he
might not meet him. Brutus'reached Ardea, much about
the time that Tarquin had got to Rome. Tarquin found
the gates shut, and an act of banishment passed against
him: But Brutus was.joyfully received in the camp, as
the deliverer of Rome, and the young Tarquin expelled.
Two of them followed their father, who retired to Caere,'*
a city of Etruria. Sextus Tarquinins, having gone to
Gabii, where he considered himself as king, fell by the
hands of those who owed him a spite for the old tends,
which, by bis murders and rapines, he had raised against
himself.
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, reigned twenty-five
years; and the regal government prevailed at Rome,
from the building of the city, to this period of its deli¬
verance two hundred and fin ty-foi/r years. Immediately
after the expulsion of the Tarquins, two consuls, Lucius
Junius Brutus, and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, were
elected, at the Commitia, by, centuries, according to the
regulations of Servius Tullius.
A. U. C. 244.