Lucius Brutus
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
a man pre-eminent in genius and virtue
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Roman who died in battle resisting the return of the expelled tyrant.
And if death were feared, Lucius Brutus would not have fallen in battle, barring the return of the tyrant whom he himself had expelled;
About Lucius Brutus I might perhaps doubt whether, on account of his boundless hatred of the tyrant, he assailed Arruns too unbridledly;
On the Commonwealth
Roman statesman who led the revolt against Tarquinius Superbus and secured the expulsion of the royal family
And so, when his elder son had offered violence to Lucretia, daughter of Tricipitinus, wife of Collatinus, and the modest and noble woman had, for that wrong, punished herself with death, then a man pre-eminent in genius and virtue, Lucius Brutus, threw off from his fellow citizens that unjust yoke of harsh servitude.