During the years she lived in Rome she was always subject to the will of others, for her destiny was controlled, first, by her father, and subsequently by her brother.

We know not how much of an effort, in view of the circumstances by which she was trammeled, she could make to maintain the dignity of woman.

If Lucretia, however, ever did possess the courage to assert her individuality and rights before those who injured her, she certainly would have done so when her husband was murdered.

Perhaps she did assail her sinister brother with recriminations and her father with tears.

She was troublesome to Caesar, who wished her away from the Vatican, consequently Alexander banished her for a time; and apparently she herself was not unwilling to go.