Collatinus married Lucretia, whose exemplary virtue he boasted of among his fellow officers at camp, prompting the fateful wager that led them riding home to test their wives.
Lucretia plunged a concealed knife into her own heart before Collatinus and her father, declaring that no woman would live unchaste by citing her example, and her blood-soaked body became the rallying point for the revolt against the Tarquins.
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