Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus

Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus is a figure of the legendary early Roman times. He was the father of Lucretia , whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius, in connection with her resulting suicide , is said to have resulted in the expulsion of the last Roman king and the beginning of the Roman Republic . In the early tradition Lucretius remained very colorless, only later did he get more profile at the instigation of the gens of the Lucretier , among other things several offices were assigned to him. He is said to have been city ​​prefect during the reign of Tarquinius Superbus .

The actual expulsion is said to have been carried out primarily by his son-in-law Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus , Lucius Junius Brutus and Publius Valerius Poplicola . During the first elections to the consulate , Lucretius acted as the Interrex in charge of holding the elections . After Lucius Junius Brutus withdrew from the office of consul, Lucretius is said to have become the republic's first suffect consul , but was replaced by Marcus Horatius Pulvillus within the period of office .

The person of Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus and his deeds are wholly or at least in large part attributable to the Roman myth.

literature

• T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 2 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).