Lucretia
historical figure · 6 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
a Lucretia · daughter of Tricipitinus · that Roman matron · wife of Collatinus
spoken of as
1 expressionRoman matron“Lucretia”1 mention
De Monogamia (Latin)
There shall sit by her also that Roman matron, who, though by nightly violence she nonetheless experienced another man, washed away the stain of her flesh with her own blood, that she might vindicate monogamy in her own person.
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman woman ravished by the king's son whose suicide became the catalyst for the founding of the Republic.
Lucretia, ravished by force by the king's son, having called the citizens to witness, slew herself.
in our commonwealth was found a Lucretia, who atoned by a voluntary death for a defilement offered by force, and one who slew his daughter, that she might not be defiled.
On the Commonwealth
Noblewoman raped by Tarquinius Superbus's son, whose suicide triggered the expulsion of the kings
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.
Consolation to Marcia
Legendary Roman woman whose death led to the expulsion of the kings and the birth of the Republic through Brutus.
In the one in which Lucretia and Brutus cast the king off the necks of the Romans:
Ad Martyras
Roman woman who killed herself after being violated, cited as an exemplar of chosen death for honor.
Lucretia, who suffered violation, drove a knife into herself in the sight of her kinsmen, that she might win glory for her chastity.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
A Roman figure cited as a pagan exemplar who died rather than live on having lost her status as a woman of one husband.
or that Lucretia, who, although once by force and against her will she suffered another man, washed away with her own blood the flesh that had been stained, that she might not live, now no longer a one-husbanded woman to herself.
De Monogamia
A Roman matron (understood as Lucretia) who took her own life after violation to preserve the honor of monogamy.
There shall sit by her also that Roman matron, who, though by nightly violence she nonetheless experienced another man, washed away the stain of her flesh with her own blood, that she might vindicate monogamy in her own person.