It is possible that in fact the overthrow of Tarquinius Superbus was a palace revolution followed by a struggle for the succession among his close relatives, such as Collatinus and Brutus, who was himself a nephew of the tyrant but any such reconstruction must remain speculative in the present state of knowledge. Brutus and Tarquinius (Tarquinus) Collatinus, jointly the first consuls of Rome. The sources present him as an innocent and high-minded victim of circumstances, but cannot hide the fact that the story of his election and subsequent retirement is incoherent and hardly credible as it stands. But Collatinus was compelled to resign and go into exile when the people, instigated by Brutus, voted that all members of the Tarquinian * gens should be banished from Rome (Livy 2. freedom of the new Republic49 Brutus claim in his speech to Collatinus. *Iunius Brutus conspired to overthrow *Tarquinius Superbus, and became the first consuls (509 bce: see consul). plebs disliked him, rather he was exiled because the plebs were pushed to oust. His father had been treacherously put to death by order of Pompey during the civil wars. Tarquinius Collatinus, Lucius, great-nephew of *Tarquinius Priscus, husband of *Lucretia, and one of the founders of the Roman republic. Marcus Junius Brutus (85, according to some, 79 or 78-42 B.C.), son of a father of the same name and of Servilia, half-sister of Cato of Utica, is the most famous of the name, and is the real hero of Shakespeares Julius Caesar.

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