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An Alternate History of Rome that anyone can edit. articles since June 2021. It was the year 245, and the Rome was at war with the Rutuli, a very wealthy nation, whose wealth the Roman King, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, desired. However, Tarquinius failed to take the Rutuli capital of Ardea by storming it, and so the king was forced to take the city by siege. Soon, the young noblemen in the king's army fell to drinking and boasting. Then the subject of the conversation turned towards the virtue of their wives. A Nobleman named Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus rose, and claimed to have the most dedicated of spouses. With his companions, they started secretly visiting each other's homes. They discovered all of the wives enjoying themselves, except for Collatinus' wife, Lucretia, who was tending to the house. Lucretia received the princes graciously, though her beauty and virtue kindled the flame of desire of Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son and Collatinus' cousin. Soon Sextus returned to Lucretia's quarter, and after being refused to give herself to him. He threatened to kill her, and claimed that he had discovered her in the act of adultery with a slave, if she did not yield to him.

And so, Lucretia, to spare her husband the shame, submitted to him. But when Sextus had departed, she sent for her husband and father, revealing the whole affair, and accusing Sextus. Despite the pleas of her family, Lucretia took her own life out of shame. Collatinus, together with his father-in-law, Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus, and his companions, Lucius Junius Brutus and Publius Valerius Poplicola, swore an oath to expel the king and his family from Rome.

Brutus, Tribune of the Celeres, was the head of the king's personal bodyguard, and entitled to summon the Roman comitia, which he soon did. When he summoned the comitia, he recounted the various grievances of the people and by inflaming public sentiment with the tale of the rape of Lucretia, Brutus persuaded the comitia to revoke the king's imperium and send him into exile. Both Tullia and Sextus Tarquinius soon fled the city, in fear of the mob. They both ended up at the city of Gabii, where they both were soon assassinated. In place of Superbus, the comitia centuriata resolved to elect Collatinus as the new king. With a new office being legislated, the praetor, whose role was to prevent future tyranny and abuses of power of the King, with Brutus being elected as the first praetor.

When word of this reached the king, Tarquinius abandoned Ardea, and sought support from his allies in Etruria. The cities of Veii and Tarquinii sent contingents to join the king's army, though the King of Clusium refused to give aid to Tarquinius, as he failed to see any difference between Tarquinius and Collatinus. Despite this, Tarquinius, prepared to march upon Rome. Their forces met at the Battle of Silva Arsia, with the forces of Veii and Tarquinii against the Roman army. After fierce fighting, during which Puplicola died in battle, the Etruscan forces eventually fled the field, resulting in a Roman Victory, establishing Collatinus as the legitimate King of Rome. Changing world history forever...

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