The haughty Tullia was chagrined, that there was no material in her husband, either for ambition or bold daring.

Directing all her regard to the other Tarquinius, him she admired, him she called a man, and one truly descended of royal blood; she expressed her contempt of her sister, because, having got a man, she was deficient in the spirit becoming a woman.

Similarity of mind soon draws them together, as wickedness is in general most congenial to wickedness.

But the commencement of producing general confusion originated with the woman.

She, accustomed to the secret conversations of the other's husband, refrained not from using the most contumelious language of her husband to his brother, of her sister to (her sister's) husband, and contended, that it were better that she herself were unmarried, and he single, than that they should be matched unsuitably, so that they must languish away through life by reason of the dastardly conduct of others.
If the gods had granted her the husband of whom she was worthy, that she should soon see the crown in her own house, which she now saw at her father's.