Livy Chapter 4 Banishment of Tarquinius

Question 1

How did Livy himself feel about Brutus’ speech?

Answer 1

Having recalled these and other, I believe, there are more atrocious things which the present [feeling of] unworthiness at the situation suggested

Question 2

Why is the reliability of what atrocious things Brutus mentioned questioned by Livy?

Answer 2

and they are by no means easy, for historians to relate

Question 3

How did Brutus inspire the crowd?

Answer 3

[Brutus] stirred up the [already] angry crowd

Question 4

Why did Brutus stir up the crowd?

Answer 4

To take power away from the King and to order Lucius Tarquinius along with his wife and children to go into exile.

Question 5

Who volunteered to go defeat the monarchy?

Answer 5

Brutus himself, having been chosen and armed young men who had voluntarily given their names

Question 6

What did Brutus and the young men do?

Answer 6

then set out for the camp of Ardea to incite the army agains the king:

Question 7

What happened to Rome?

Answer 7

he left control of the city [of Rome] to Lucretius who just recently had been made prefect of the city by the king.

Question 8

What else happened as they set out from Rome to Ardea?

Answer 8

Amid the chaos, Tullia fled from her home

Question 9

What happened to Tullia once she fled?

Answer 9

And men and women cursed her wherever she went and called upon the goddess who avenge [wronged] parents.

Question 10

CONTEXT question

Who was Tullia?

Answer 10

The daughter who drove a chariot over her father’s body

Question 11

est profectus

stylistic features

Answer 11

hyperlatron

unusual word order, should be the other way round

Question 12

CONTEXT question

Who are the goddesses who avenge wrong parents?

Answer 12

Furies god of anger

Which is why Livy calls them furias in the text

Question 13

What did the people of Ardea do to respond to the crowd?

Answer 13

With the events delivered to the camp [Ardea], when the king was making his way to Rome to crush the revolution

Question 14

How did Brutus react to the king coming to crush his rebellion?

Answer 14

Brutus changed his route for he had sensed [the King’s] arrival

Question 15

Why did Brutus change his route?

Answer 15

So that he wouldn’t meet [the king]

Question 16

What happened when Brutus changed his route?

Answer 16

And almost at the same time, on different routes, Brutus arrived at Ardea [and] Tarquin arrived in Rome.

Question 17

How did Rome react to Tarquin’s arrival?

Answer 17

The gates of Rome were closed to Tarquinius and he was sentenced to exile.

Question 18

How was Brutus welcomed in Ardea once he was a victor?

Answer 18

The liberator of the city [of Rome] was joyfully welcomed by the happy camp,

Question 19

How was the monarchy treated in Ardea once Brutus was the victor?

Answer 19

and the sons of the king were driven out.

Question 20

Brutus ardeam, Tarquinius roman

stylistic features

Answer 20

Word order creates a parallelism between the two parties, to represent at the same time.

Question 21

Secuti Sunt

stylistic features

Answer 21

The sibilance builds up suspense in this section of how the story will end

Question 22

Relatu

stylistic features

Answer 22

“Having recalled” authorial input which leaves the passage paused to build suspense before the climax

Question 23

What did two of the king’s sons do?

Answer 23

Two [of them] followed their father, and went into exile at Caere in Etruria

Question 24

What did Sextus Tarquinius do once he had lost?

Answer 24

Sextus Tarquinius, having set out for Gabii as if to his own kingdom was killed by avengers of old hostilities

Question 25

Why did the avengers kill Sextus?

Answer 25

which he had stirred up against himself with his killings and thefts

Question 26

How many years did the king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus rule for?

Answer 26

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus ruled for 25 years.

Question 27

How many years did monarchy rule in Rome?

Answer 27

Rome was ruled by kings for 244 years from the founding of the city through to its liberation.

Question 28

What happened to the rulership once the monarchy was disbanded?

Answer 28

Two consuls were then elected at the assemblies of the centuries

Question 29

How did they make sure the consuls never became monarchs?

Answer 29

[controlled over] by the Prefect of the City in accordance with the instructions left by Servius Tullius

Question 30

Who were the first two consuls of Rome?

Answer 30

[and they were] Lucius Iunius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus

Question 31

est interfectus

stylistic features

Answer 31

Emphatic last position of killed at the end of the paragraph

Question 32

Consules inde comitiis centuriatis

stylistic features

Answer 32

alliteration of C to show the power of the new system

Question 33

CONTEXT question

Who were the century of the assemblies?

Answer 33

100 soldiers with 100 votes.

Question 34

CONTEXT question

Who were the century of the assemblies?

Answer 34

100 soldiers with 100 votes.