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In connection with the violation of
Lucretia by Sextus and her suicide because of the
wrong done her, we do not believe it would be right to leave no record of the nobility of her
choice. For the woman who renounced life of her own will in order that later generations might
emulate her deed we should judge to be fittingly worthy of immortal praise, in order that women
who choose to maintain the purity of their persons altogether free from censure may compare
themselves with an authentic example. Other women, indeed,
even when such an act as this on their part is known, conceal what has been done, as a means of
avoiding the punishment which is meted out for guilty acts; but she made known to the world
what had been done in secret and then slew herself, leaving in the end of her life her fairest
defence. And whereas other women advance a claim for pardon in
matters done against their will, she fixed the penalty of death for the outr