Then Tarquin, necessity itself now obliging him to have recourse to the last extremity, having much the advantage both in years and strength, seizes Servius by the middle, and having taken him out of the senate-house, throws him down the steps to the bottom.

He then returns to the senate-house to assemble the senate.

The king's officers and attendants fly.

He himself, almost lifeless, when he was returning home with his royal retinue frightened to death, and had arrived at the top of the Cyprian street, is slain by those who had been sent by Tarquin, and had overtaken him in his flight.

As the act is not inconsistent with her other marked conduct, it is believed to have been done by Tullia's advice.