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Lucius Iunius Brutus
Lucius Brutus
also: L. Brutus, Lucius Brutus
The semi-legendary founder of the Roman Republic who expelled the last king, Tarquinius Superbus, and became one of the first consuls in 509 BC. Cicero invokes him as the ancestral model of the tyrannicide Bruti (Marcus and Decimus).
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- First Philippic §13 that famous Lucius Brutus
Lucius Iunius Brutus, who expelled the kings and founded the Republic in 509 BC; Cicero names him as the noblest of the dead, yet one to whom even he would not vote divine honours.