Before revision: Brutus gained respect for his stoicism in watching the execution of his own sons, even though he showed emotion during the punishment.Dionysius of Halicarnassus - Roman Antiquities 5.10Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.3-4 Following this, he either forced his co-consul Collatinus to resign or otherwise had him removed – either because of enmity to his relationship to the Tarquins or due to his lack of harshness in punishing the conspirators – and then presided over the election of a suffect consul, Publius Valerius Poplicola.
After revision: Brutus gained respect for his stoicism in watching the execution of his own sons, even though he showed emotion during the punishment.Dionysius of Halicarnassus - Roman Antiquities 5.10Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.2-5 Following this, he either forced his co-consul Collatinus to resign or otherwise had him removed – either because of enmity to his relationship to the Tarquins or due to his lack of harshness in punishing the conspirators – and then presided over the election of a suffect consul, Publius Valerius Poplicola.