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Verginia, or
Virginia (c. 465 BC – 449 BC), was the
subject of an
ancient Roman story recounted in
Roman historian Livy's text Ab Urbe Condita. Upon a...
- were routed. Livy
alleged that
Appius Claudius was ****ually
interested in
Verginia, the
daughter of a plebeian,
Lucius Verginius, who was a
centurion absent...
- The gens
Verginia or
Virginia was a
prominent family at
ancient Rome,
which from an
early period was
divided into
patrician and
plebeian branches. The...
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Verginia,
sometimes spelled Virginia, was the
daughter of
Aulus Verginius, a
Roman patrician. Her
example of
modesty and
virtue in the face of adversity...
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behaved as a
lustful tyrant, with his
attempt to
force himself on the maid
Verginia resulting in the
second secession of the plebs, the
downfall of the Decemvirate...
- that she
still was his slave.
Verginia's friends asked for an
adjournment until Verginius could attend and to
leave Verginia in the
custody of the defendants...
- from
legend or the
Bible who were
either powerless, such as
Susanna and
Verginia, or only able to
escape their situations by suicide, such as Dido of Carthage...
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Bernardo Accolti at the
Internet Archive Verginia :
comedia di m.
Bernardo Accolti Aretino,
intitolata la
Verginia : con un
capitolo della Madonna (1535)...
- BC, with
Spurius C****ius Vecellinus. He was the
first from the
powerful Verginia family to
obtain the consulship.
Together with his
colleague Spurius C****ius...
- first. The
reason for Virginia's name is not known; it may be
named after Verginia, the
Roman noblewoman slain by her father, but it may
alternatively have...
