# Brutus — The City of God character guide

> Brutus in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Junius Brutus

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

Founder of the Roman Republic, who expelled the Tarquins and established liberty.

## In the story

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xix)

Kinsman of Lucretia; she bound him by an oath to avenge the rape.

### [Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome’s palmiest days.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvii)

Junius Brutus, consul who unjustly forced Collatinus into exile.

### [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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi)

Junius Brutus, first consul, who banished his colleague Collatinus, killed his own sons and brothers-in-law for conspiring to restore Tarquin, and died in battle slaying and slain.

### [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xviii)

Roman who executed his son for conspiring against liberty, cited as an example of extreme sacrifice for earthly glory.

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