From that time the old age of Tullius became more embittered, his reign more unhappy. The woman b e gin to look forward from one crime to another;she allowed her husband no rest day or night, for fear lest the past murders should prove fruitless.what she wanted, she said, was not a man who was only her husband in name, or with. whom she was to live in uncomplaining servitude; the man she needed was one wh0 deemed himself worthy of a throne, who remembered that he
,rquinius, who preferred to wear a
Ipes of it.x6“If you are the man to whom工thou沙t I was married, then工call you myhusband and my king;but if not, I have changed my condition for the worse, since you are not only a coward but a criminal to boot. Why do you not prepare yourself for action?You are no,七。 like your
a native of Corinth or T arQuxnxx, nor is it a foreign. crown
J.尹 you have to win. xsehold gods, your lather's image, the royal palace, the kinaly 卿黔W州州t,, the very
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ii you nays not courage enough for this, why do you excite vain hopes x几 why do you allow yourself to be looked up to aS ki叫y stock? Make your way back to inii sink back to the position whence you sl you brother's nature rather than your father's." 17 with taunts like_ these she egged, him on.. She, too, was perpetually haunted by the tn.ougnt that whilst I anaquil, a woman. of alien crescent, had shown such spirit as to give the crown to her husband and her son-in-law in succession,.she herself, though of royal descent, had no power either in giving it or taking it away. Infected b夕 the woman's madness Tarquin began to go abou七and interview the nobles, mainly those of the Lesser Houses;he reminded, them of the favour his father had shown them, and asked them
prove their gratitude; he won over the younger men with to芦do ,sents. By making magnificent promises as to what he would
and by bringing charges against the king, his cause became
action had ,arrived, appeared suddenly in the Forum. with a body of armed risen. 比A撅 generalPanic ensued,durinz which he seated himself in.
r、.少 royal. chair in the senate-house and ordered the Fathers to be summoned by the crier“into the presence ofKing Tarquin.” They hastily assembled, some already prepared for what was coming;others, apprehensive lest their absence should arouse suspicion, and dismayed by the extraordinary nature of the incident, were convinced that the fate of Servius was sealed.
Tarquin went back to the king's birth rotested that he was a slave and the son of a slave, and after his the speaker's} father lxad been foully murdered, seized the throne, as a woman's gift, without any interrex being ointed as heretofore, without any assembly being convened, out an.y vote of the pe州“be咋 taken, or any confirmation of it by the lathers. Such was 1115 orizin。such was his ri比t to the crown.His
、.户 I 'M.产 with the dregs of society from which。 he had sprung, and through#' .4 11 41 1 Is 1- *4 . I It 19 14 V . V jealousy of the ranks to which he did not belong, he tact taken the land from the foremost men运the Mate.and divided it amongst the vilest;he had shifted on to them the whole of the burdens which had forme街been borne in common by all;he had instituted the census that the fortunes of the wealthy might be held uo to envv,and be an easily available source from which
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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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