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the Name of several Ro∣mans. Lucius Junius Brutus, the Founder of the Liberty and Common-wealth of Rome, which had been governed by Seven Kings Successively. He had seemed till the Death of Lucretia to be of a very dull and slow Wit, but the Death of that famous Woman changed him on a sudden, for he delivered a funeral
Oration in praise of her so well that the People looked upon this Proof of his excellent Wit, and Eloquence for a Prodigy, and Miracle from the Gods. The People at the Conclusion of this Speech cried out, LIBERTY, and made Brutus Consul, giving him an absolute Power. He was slain in a single Fight with Aruns, the Son of Tarquinius, but slew his Enemy at the same time. The Roman Matrons lamented him, and wore Mourning for him a whole Year, acknowledging him the Revenger of the violated Ghastity of their Sex, in the Person of L••••retia.
M. and Decius Brutus, were the Institutors of the Shews of Gladiators at Rome, which be∣fore had never been used in any Mans Me∣mory. They introduced them in Honour of the Funerals of their Fathers.
According to Florus these Shews did not be∣gin till Three Years after.
There was another Brutus of the same Family, who was one of the Murtherers of Julius Caesar. He was driven from Rome by Anthony, and killed himself in the Phi∣lippick Field, a little time after.