Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.59.6-8

The armed band's arrival in Rome causes panic and confusion, but when the people see the leading men of the city at their head they sense something serious is afoot, and the outrage spreads through Rome no less than it had at Collatia; the crowd rushes to the forum where Brutus, serving as tribune of the Celeres, delivers a speech utterly unlike the simpleminded persona he had long affected, recounting the violence and lust of Sextus Tarquinius, the outrage done to Lucretia, and the bereavement of her father Tricipitinus, whose grief at his daughter's death was made all the more bitter by the manner of it.

 

Tier 1

Cum armata multitudo in ullo loco venit, facit metuum et clamorem perturbatum; omnes, cum turba tantos viros civitatis ire vident, quidquid sit, putant causam esse.

Tam atrox res facit nec minorem tempestatem animorum Romae quam Collatiae fecerat; ergo omnes currunt ex omnibus locis urbis in forum.

In quo cum primum ventum est, nuntius populum advocavit ad tribunum celerum (Celeres, a public office), in quo tum Brutus erat forte magistratu.

Ibi Brutus orationem fecit quae non erat habita eius cordis et naturae, quae simulata ad eam diem fuerat,

Brutus orationem fecit de vi et libidine Sexti Tarquini, de rapina infanda et miserabili caede Lucretiae, de filia amissa Tricipitini, cui causa mortis filiae indignior et miserabilior esset quam mors Lucretiae ipsius.

Written by Robert Amstutz