Those stains by thy innocent blood.

Then Tullia with her guilty lord,

Base Tarquin, dared an impious deed,

Whose penalty they paid; for she305

Over the limbs of her murdered sire,

A heartless child, drove cruel wheels,

And left his corpse unburied there.

Such deeds of dire impiety

Our age has known, our eyes have seen,

When the prince on the mighty Tyrrhene deep310