Added to these accounts were the arrogance of that king and the miserable labors of the common people. These and other more atrocious things having been recalled, he urged the incensed crowd to take rule away from the king and order into exiles L. Tarquinius with his wife and children. This very thing, with the young men who volunteered their powers chosen and armed, was accomplished thereafter to go to Ardea for stirring up the army in the camp against the king. The rule in the city to Lucretius, the commander of the city having already been established before by the king, he surrenders. Messengers of these matters having been announced, when the alarmed king could continue to Rome to restrain the movement in the new thing, Brutus changed route (for he had suspected his arrival) so that they would not cross paths. And at the same time by several paths Brutus came to Ardea, Tarquinius to Rome. The gates were shut to Tarquinius and he was declared an exile; the army received the liberator of the city with joy, and thereafter the sons of the king were driven out.

L. Tarquinius Superbus ruled for twenty-five years. The rule of Rome from the city’s founding to its liberation spanned two hundred and forty-four years. Thereafter, two consuls from the comitia centuriata were appointing by commander of the city according to the regulations of Servius Tullius: L. Iunius Brutus and L. Tarquinius Collatinus.