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CONTENTS.
436
Chap. Page
Ivi. He sends a colony to Signia and Cere-
dum. Sends Brutus to Delpho? 96
Ivii. A dispute about the excellency of wives, 99
Iviii. Lucretia ravished; stabs herself 100
lix. The Tarquins banished 102
lx. Brutus and Collatinus created consuls .... 104
BOOK II.
Containing the Establishment of the Consular Government,
and of the Tribunitian Power; their contests at home,
and Wars abroad, till the year of Rome, 286.
Chap. i. Brutus binds the people by oath never to
suffer a king at Rome 105
ji. Constrains Tarquinius Collatinus, on sus¬
picion of an attachment to the Tar¬
quins, to resign the consulship, and
leave Rome 107
iii. Deputies from the Tarquins arrive at
Rome 109
iv. The plot discovered by means of a slave,
and the conspirators clapt in irons ... 110
v. The conspirators condemned and execut¬
ed ; and the effects of the Tarquins
given up to be plundered by the peo¬
ple Ill
vi. The Tarquins muster an army, are de¬
feated ; but Brutus is killed 113
vii. The ladies mourn for Brutus a whole year, 115
viii. P. Valerius proposes a law, for allowing
appeals to the people. The capitol
dedicated 117
ix. Porsenna prevailed on to espouse the
quarrel of the Tarquins 118
x. The gallantry of Codes 119
xi. Porsenna turns the siege into a blockade, 121
xii. Mucius’s adventure '. 122
xiii. Porsenna concludes a peace with Rome.
Adventure of Claelia 125
xiv. Aruns, Porsenna’s son, roughly handled
at Aricia 126
xv. Porsenna sends an embassy to Rome 127