Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.58.10–12

Lucretia declares that she will not be made an example for unchaste women, and kills herself with a concealed knife as her husband and father look on.

 

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"Vos," inquit Lucretia, "videbitis quid debeatur Tarquinio: etsi ego me absolvo crimine, non libero me poena; postea nulla impudica femina vivet exemplo Lucretiae."

Lucretia se occidit cultro, quem sub veste occultatum habebat, lapsaque moribunda in vulnus cecidit. Vir paterque clamant.

Written by Robert Amstutz

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