biography
| name: |
Brutus, Lucius Junius
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pronunciation:
[brootus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (fl.500 BC)
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| biography:
| Legendary Roman hero who established Republican government at Rome. He was the son of a rich Roman, on whose death Lucius Tarquinius Superbus seized the property and killed an elder brother. He escaped by feigning idiocy, from which he got his name (brutus means ‘stupid’). When popular indignation was roused at the rape of Lucretia by Sextus, he drove the royal family from Rome. He was elected one of the first two consuls (509 BC). |
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