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Lucretia

the wife of L. Tarquinius Collatinus, famous for her heroic virtue.

She was shamefully outraged by Sextus Tarquinius, whereupon she summoned her husband and a group of friends, and, after making them take a solemn oath to drive out the hated race of Tarquins from the city, plunged a knife into her heart. Of the poetic elaborations of the story the most famous is the "Rape of Lucrece" of Shakespeare's youth.

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