The whole Senate shrieked to hear a father thus condemn his own children, but he was resolute, and actually looked on while the young men were first scourged and then beheaded.
Collatinus put off the further judgment in hopes to save his nephews, and Brutus told them that he had put them to death by his own power as a father, but that he left the rest to the voice of the people, and they were sent into banishment.

Even Collatinus was thought to have acted weakly, and was sent into exile--so determined were the Romans to have no one among them who would not uphold their decrees to the utmost.
Tarquin advanced to the walls and cut down all the growing corn around the Campus Martius and threw it into the Tiber; there it formed a heap round which an island was afterwards formed.

Brutus himself and his cousin Aruns Tarquin soon after killed one another in single combat in a battle outside the walls, and all the women of Rome mourned for him as for a father.
Tarquin found a friend in the Etruscan king called Lars Porsena, who brought an army to besiege Rome and restore him to the throne.

He advanced towards the gate called Janiculum upon the Tiber, and drove the Romans out of the fort on the other side the river.

The Romans then retreated across the bridge, placing three men to guard it until all should be gone over and it could be broken down.
[Illustration: BRUTUS CONDEMNING HIS SONS.] There stood the brave three--Horatius, Lartius, and Herminius--guarding the bridge while their fellow-citizens were fleeing across it, three men against a whole army.