Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.59.1

While the others are consumed by grief, Brutus holds out the knife dripping with Lucretia's blood and swears by it, calling the gods as witnesses, that he will pursue Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, his wicked wife, and all his children with sword, fire, and every means in his power, and that he will suffer neither them nor any other to reign in Rome.

 

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Dum alii occupati sunt tristitia, Brutus tenet ante se cultrum, quo Lucretia se occidit et quem Brutus e corpore Lucretiae extraxit,

"Iuro," inquit "per hunc sanguinem, qui castissimus erat ante regiam (royal) iniuriam, et per vos, di, testes (as witnesses),

Iuro me persecuturum Lucium Tarquinium Superbum cum mala femina et liberis eius ferro, igne, et deinde quacumque vi possim,

nec passurum quemquam esse regem Romae."

Written by Robert Amstutz