 Brutus was a friend of Lucretia's husband, and he played a simple man most of his life until the moment he took charge of avenging Lucretia and establishing the Republic. The hundred senators, the hundred best men. We come now to the religion that sustains all this, that pulls it together. Opia. Opia is a vestal virgin. This is the 5th century BCE. Where did the vestals come from? Is that Etruscan?