Popular suspicion of intentions fo the sole consul Valerius are reassured, supposedly by his public-spirited demolition of his ostentatiously grand new house, and he wins the title of ‘Publicola’ (People’s Friend) Spurius Lucretius, replacement second consul, dies and is succeeded by Marcus Horatius. Brutus executes his sons for treasonous contacts with the Tarquins’ envoys who are in Rome to request return of the family property Brutus killed in Battle with forces of Veii invading on Tarquinius’s behalf. Arguably, the increase in the percentage of senior offices held by patricians (79 per cent in the years 509-483, 99 per cent by the years 427-401) suggests a move by the latter to exclude those of plebeian origin from power and a reason for those excluded to ally with the lower orders against them.Ĭonsuls: Lucius Iunius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus latter replaced by Publius Valerius. What is clear is that, as in Greece, tension between the social classes (and between the patrician and non-patrician rich) stoked a ‘Conflict of Orders’ in the following century and a third, reaching peaks in the 490s and 360s. It is not certain if the non-patricians were brought in individually on an individual basis by vote of the others - a ‘life peerage’ element on the British parallel. Indeed, there were a number of non-patrician consuls in the first years of the Republic - among them the ‘liberator’ Marcus Junius Brutus. However, there were other families represented in the Senate of non-patrician rank, who some historians have assumed to be the conscripti in the traditional formula for addressing the Senate, ‘patres et conscripti’. This is dominated by the ‘patrician’ families, a closed hereditary elite of senior dynasties who dominate the early consulship. Power is now in the overall hands of the Senate, the former advisory body of noblemen supposedly create by Romulus.
The official story has the new Republic exiling all royals and banning the names of Tarquinius and King - which is at odds with the leadership of the new state by one consul with that name and the other related to the exiled ruler.Ī dual supreme magistracy, the consulship, is created with its duration limited to one year. Tarquinius and family are expelled, probably by a group of the leading noble ‘patrician’ clans and supposedly after the rape of Lucretia by Tarquinius’ son Sextus revolt led by the king’s nephew Lucius Iunius Brutus and his ally Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus. ?509/8 BC Alternatively, Dionysius of Halicarnassus dates it to 508/7 and Polybius to 508 an inscription in Rome dated to Flavius’ aedilship in 303 dated that year as being 204 since the expulsion of the king.
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