![]() ![]() After the subsequent suicide of Lucretia, her husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, and the Brutus family (to which Lucretia belonged) raised a rebellion. The romantic reason traditionally given for the deposition of Tarquin was the rape of Lucretia (see Lucrece) by his son Sextus Tarquinius. Despised by the people for his tyranny, he sought to win favor by successful wars but was deposed (510 BC) by the senate. Under his rule Etruscan influence was at its height, and the power of the monarchy was absolute. ![]() After a reign of 44 years, Tullius was murdered by Priscus' son Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud), who thereupon seized the throne. Through the influence of Priscus' wife, Tanaquil, the plot was halted and the kingship passed to Servius Tullius, Priscus' son-in-law. After a reign of 38 years he was assassinated by the sons of Ancus Martius, who were involved in a patrician plot attempting to limit the kingship to a religious role only. During his reign Etruscan influences appeared in Roman politics, religion, and art. He is credited with the building of the first Circus Maximus and the Forum. Priscus fought successfully against the Sabines and subjugated all Latium to Rome. He rose to high position, and on the death of Ancus Martius (c.616 BC) he either seized the Roman throne or was elected to it by a coalition of Etruscan families. At her urging he went to Rome, became a citizen, and took the name Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. Lucumo married Tanaquil, a daughter of the Etruscan aristocracy and a prophetess of high repute. According to the historian Livy, when the rule of the Bacchiadae in Corinth was overthrown (c.657 BC) by the tyrant Cypselus, Demaratus, a Corinthian noble, migrated to Tarquinii, Etruria, where he married into one of the leading Etruscan families and had two sons, Aruns and Lucumo. ![]() Shannon, CPR, 220-228.įrom CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.Tarquin (tär´kwĬn), in Roman tradition, an Etruscan family that ruled Rome. Colatinus means in Latin "of Collatia," a town in Latium, and denotes that part of the Tarquin family native to Collatia. Colatynes, the ME genitive case, occurs in LGW 1713. Ĭolatyn, the English contraction for Latin Collatinus, occurs twice in medial positions, LGW 1705, 1778 and twice in final rhyming position, LGW 1714, 1740. Frazer notes variant readings for Fasti I.787, and points out that Collatini is the name in six of the best manuscripts. Robinson (850) notes that Colatyn is not directly named in Ovid's account, while Shannon, on the basis of the word Collatina, discounts the use of Ovid, although Chaucer names him as one of his sources. The next night Tarquinius rides to Colatyn's house, LGW 1775-1778. ![]() Then Colatyn makes himself known, and Lucretia receives them, LGW 1739-1744. He takes Tarquinius to his house, and they watch Lucretia from a spot where she cannot see them, LGW 1712-1720. Legend tells that this was the cause of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome ( Fasti II.685-852).Ĭolatyn, Lucretia's husband, says that his wife is thought good by all who know her, LGW 1706-1710. Lucretia sent for Collatinus and her father, told them what had happened, and then committed suicide. She welcomed him as a relative, and during the night he raped her at knifepoint. Tarquinius was inflamed by her beauty and returned stealthily the following night. During a lull in the siege of Ardea in 510 B.C., Collatinus boasted at supper of the beauty and virtue of his wife Lucretia, and to prove his words, took his cousin Tarquinius Superbus and other men to visit Lucretia in Collatia. Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus is regarded by Roman tradition as the founder of the republic and one of the first consuls of Rome for 509 B.C. COLATYN Main Menu | List of entries | finishedĬOLATYN. ![]()
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