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Lucius Junius Brutus, Consul ([?] - 509 BC)
Founder and first consul of the Roman Republic. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001/acref-9780199545568-e-3438?rskey=aAKNNN&result=2 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Junius_Brutus Relationships: Lucius Junius Brutus was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Lucretia ([?]-c. 508 BCE)References in Documents:
[MS SLOAN, 1833, f. 16.]
Sir,
the head of
behinde his head; on the reverse it hath a Caduceus or
curies
s. c.
visible, or the dagger on the obverse. It is thus to be read;
Marcus Plætorius Cestianus ex Senatus Consulto.
This
was a remarkable man of the ancient Plætorian family, who
derive themselves from the Sabines, which family was of the
faction of the commons of
their being chosen ædiles and tribunes of the people. He
was contemporary with
designed prætor together with
the foundation of
spiracy, and eighty-five yeares before the birth of our Saviour.
which I have with an ædiles chair on the reverse, and this
inscription: M. Plætorius ÆD. CVR. EX. S. C., on the obverse
his head, with this inscription:
by
lib. 30. He preferred a law
by
torius
coyne was stamped upon his being chosen to dedicate the
temple of
consuls at that time sued,
it from them both by the election of the people, although he
were at that time onely a centurion, as is to be seen in
9 This letter is but a fragment. It is acrompanied by a pen drawing of the coin.