Today’s Totally Random
Lines
When they had sworn to this advised doom,
They did conclude to bear dead Lucrece hence,
To show her bleeding body thorough Rome,
And so to publish Tarquin's foul offense:
Which being done with speedy diligence,
The Romans plausibly did give consent
To Tarquin's everlasting banishment.
Lucrece Lines 1,849 – 1,855
Narrator
These are the last lines of this long poem/story,
and they speak of Tarquin being banished for the crime of raping Lucrece. I’m
not sure what the typical Roman sentence for rape was, but it seems like
Tarquin’s getting off easy here. Lucrece, in case you didn’t know, killed
herself in shame a few stanzas back.
It’s a fairly depressing poem, isn’t it.
Fairly
depressing?!
I’m
ready to kill myself here!
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