Lucretia's kinsman Lucius Junius Brutus ( himself a member of the Tarquin dynasty ) and Lucretia's widowed husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus ( grand-nephew of Tarquinus Priscus and thus also a member of the dynasty ) led the revolt, along with Publius Valerius Poplicola, and Lucretia's aging father, Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus.

By law, however, as he was a Junius on his father's side, he was not a Tarquin and therefore could later propose the exile of the Tarquins without fear for himself.

Antony, left as sole Consul, surrounded himself with a bodyguard of Caesar's veterans and forced the senate to transfer to him the province of Cisalpine Gaul, which was then administered by Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of the conspirators.

Sejanus ' uncle Junius Blaesus distinguished himself as a military commander who became proconsul of Africa in 21, and earned triumphal honors by crushing the rebellion of Tacfarinas.

One of the main charges of the senatorial faction that plotted against Julius Caesar after he had the Roman Senate declare him dictator for life, was that he was attempting to make himself a king, and a co-conspirator Cassius, enticed Brutus ' direct descendant, Marcus Junius Brutus, to join the conspiracy by referring to his ancestor.

He was the son of the consul Marcus Junius Brutus ( consul in 178 BC ) and brother of the praetor Marcus Junius Brutus ; he himself was appointed consul in 138 BC ( jointly with Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio ).

Junius was not a radical anti-royal Whig, as many texts suggest, though he did trouble himself with explaining to the public the real constitutional role of the royal prerogative, and ( if engaged correctly ) how it benefited the country.

Junius confessed himself beaten in his private letter to Woodfall of 19 January 1773 for not having achieved his goals.

He had his father-in-law Marcus Junius Silanus and his brother-in-law Marcus Lepidus executed as well.

But the underlying political conflicts had not been resolved, and on the Ides of March ( 15 March ) 44 BC, Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus.

Tarquin also had a sister, Tarquinia, the mother of Lucius Junius Brutus.

Booth's father, Junius Brutus Booth, was named for Brutus, and Booth ( as Marcus Antonius ) and his brother ( as Brutus ) had performed in a production of Julius Caesar in New York just six months before the assassination.

The Caesarean background of the Triumvirs made it no surprise that immediately after the conclusion of the first civil war of the post-Caesar period, they immediately set about prosecuting a second: Caesar's murderers Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus had usurped control of most of the Eastern provinces, including Macedonia, Asia Minor, and Syria.

On Caesar's death ( 44 BC ), Dolabella seized the insignia of the consulship ( which had already been conditionally promised him ), and, by making friends with Marcus Junius Brutus and the other assassins, was confirmed in his office.

The arrival of the Cimbri in Gaul in 109 BC and their complete defeat of Marcus Junius Silanus had resulted in unrest among the Celtic tribes recently conquered by the Romans in southern Gaul.

In 1900, a decade after the death of his multimillionaire father Junius Morgan, JP Morgan had already gained a fondness for the sport and was made an honorary member.

Pierpont, as he preferred to be known, had a varied education due in part to interference by his father, Junius.

Smith reports: " In the course of the administration of his province he gained a complete victory over the Numidian Tacfarinas ; but although he had formerly been a very great flatterer of Tiberius, yet he did not obtain the ornaments of a triumph, in order that his predecessor in the province of Africa, Junius Blaesius, an uncle of Sejanus, might not be thrown into the shade.

According to legend, the Junii avoided the names Titus and Tiberius because they were the names of two sons of Lucius Junius Brutus, the founder of the Republic, who were executed on the grounds that they had plotted to restore the king to power.

He would later write that he had been baptized Janus Junius, a play on his name that recalled both the Roman two-faced god Janus and Junius Brutus, reputed founder of the Roman republic.

Lucretia's kinsman, Lucius Junius Brutus ( ancestor to Marcus Brutus ), summoned the Senate and had Superbus and the monarchy expelled from Rome in 510 BC.

They had only one known child, Marcus Junius Brutus, born around 85 BC.

Servilia's second marriage was with Decimus Junius Silanus, with whom she had three daughters ; Junia Prima, Junia Secunda, and Junia Tertia.

By her, he had a son, Marcus Porcius Cato, and a daughter, Porcia, who would become the second wife of Marcus Junius Brutus.

Junius became mayor in 1608 and remained in that position until his arrest, which came shortly after his wife had been executed on similar charges.

Before his brother assassinated Lincoln, Edwin had appeared with his two brothers, John Wilkes and Junius Brutus Booth Jr., in Julius Caesar in 1864.

( Junius had remained in San Francisco where he had previously established his home, and Edwin struck out on his own, acting in various venues in northern California.

He had a son also named Decimus Junius Brutus, consul in 77 BC, and his grandson was Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus.

He attempted to reach Macedonia, where Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus had stationed themselves but was executed en route by a Gallic chief loyal to Mark Antony, becoming the first of Caesar's assassins to be killed.

His treachery is considered so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Marcus Junius Brutus ( who too is depicted in Dante's Inferno, suffering the same fate as Judas along with Cassius Longinus ), and Vidkun Quisling.

On several of these final books, Junius Podrug has been credited as co-writer.

Contemporary observers such as Edmund Burke and the anonymous letter-writer ‘ Junius ’ thought it odd that Rochford was appointed northern secretary when all of his diplomatic experience had been in southern courts, but Lord Weymouth had insisted on taking the Southern Department as the more important of the secretaryships.

Alternatively, the name may have been derived from the Roman poet Juvenal, who was thought also to have had the nomen Junius.

Junius ’ private correspondence has been preserved, written in his usual disguised handwriting.

Junius could only have been disappointed by Grafton's replacement, Lord North.

A Boston, Massachusetts, indie-rock band has been performing and recording under the name Junius since around 2003.

The authorship of the letters has been assigned to Francis on a variety of grounds, including a computer-aided analysis of the Junius texts in the 1960s.

This identifies Cestius ' heirs as Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, a famous general ; Publius Rutilius Lupus, an orator whose father of the same name had been consul in 90 BC ; and Lucius Junius Silanus, a member of the distinguished gens Junia.

Torquatus ' son, Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, whom Tacitus calls a young man of moderation ( modesta iuventa 16. 7 ), was considered a threat on similar grounds as his father had been, and informers soon cooked up a conspiracy implicating him and his aunt Junia Calvina on charges of magic rites and incest ( Ann.

The agricultural writings of Palladius may be compared to those of Marcus Priscus Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro and particularly Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, whose De re rustica appears to have served as a model for Palladius, to such an extent that the Opus agriculturae has been described as an " abridgement " of Columella.

The Gold of Tolosa was never found, and was said to have been passed all the way down to the last heir of the Servilii Caepiones, Marcus Junius Brutus.

Veronica Junius, daughter of the burgomaster of Bamberg who was burned as a witch, has also been tortured and found guilty of witchery by ecclesiastical court.

It is possible that only the chronology has been distorted, but it seems that one of the first consuls, Lucius Junius Brutus, came from a plebeian family.