Lucresse is a virtuous wife, but Alceste surpasses her, LGW F 257, LGW G 211. Lucretia is exemplary of wifely virtue, MLI 63 FranklT 1405 BD 1087 Anel 82. Gower uses the story to illustrate unchastity, Confessio Amantis VII.4754-5130. Jealous Husband tells the story and says that there are no more Lucretias in Rome, RR 8608-8642. Augustine emphasizes the inappropriateness of her suicide, The City of God I.18, in a comparison of Christian and pagan virtue. The virtue of Lucretia is a medieval commonplace. They forgave her, but Lucretia stabbed herself and fell dead at their feet ( Fasti II.685-852 Livy, Ab urbe condita liber I.57-59). When day came, she sent for her father and her husband and told them what had happened. After he had threatened her several times, she at length gave way. She prepared a meal for him, but after the meal Tarquinius pulled his sword and threatened her with death unless she yielded to his lust. He later returned to the house, and Lucretia welcomed him as a relative. Sextus Tarquinius, Collatinus's cousin, immediately caught fire with lust for Lucretia. When he reached his house, Collatinus found his wife Lucretia spinning with her maids. Collatinus boasted of his wife's fidelity and beauty and suggested that they all ride off to Collatia to prove the truth of his boast.
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During a break in the fighting during the siege of Ardea, the officers were entertained at a feast.
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late sixth century B.C., daughter of the consul Lucretius, was the wife of Tarquinius Collatinus, an officer in the Roman army.
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