person
Lucius Junius Brutus
Brutus
also: Brutorum, the Bruti
The founder of the Republic who expelled the last king Tarquin in 509 BC; his statue stood on the Capitol as a model of the liberator, invoked here (with later Bruti) as the type of the foe of kingship.
Reading notes
- Panegyric to Trajan §55 the Bruti
Lucius Junius Brutus, who expelled the kings and founded the Republic in 509 BC (and his namesake descendants); the proverbial enemy of kingship, his statue a model for the free state.