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Brutus threw out the Roman kings in 509 in order to revenge the honor of Lucrecia who had been raped by Tarquin. The wife of Licinius, in 367, convinced her husband to propose that one of the Consuls be plebean. The Decemvirs were thrown out in 449 because one of them, Appius Claudius, coveted Virginia, whom her father killed in order that she escape such dishonor. Finally, the prayers of Veturia convinced her son, the rebel Coriolanus, to stop the siege of Rome in 491. (c.f. OC, p.1652)