The City of God · Character
Brutus
Founder of the Roman Republic, who expelled the Tarquins and established liberty.
minor
Also known as Junius Brutus
First appearance: part i book i
Brutus shows up with force in XIX. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Kinsman of Lucretia; she bound him by an oath to avenge the rape.
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In XIX: Kinsman of Lucretia; she bound him by an oath to avenge the rape. Later, in Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome’s palmiest days.: Junius Brutus, consul who unjustly forced…
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- Other
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- Roman Founders and Tyrants
- Patriarchs and Pagan Figures
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- XIX
- Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome’s palmiest days.
- Of the first Roman consuls, the one of whom drove the other from the country, and shortly after perished at Rome by the hand of a wounded enemy, and so ended a career of unnatural murders
- Chapter XVIII
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