person
Verginia
The freeborn plebeian maiden, betrothed to Icilius, whom the decemvir Appius Claudius sought to enslave for his lust; her death at her father's hand is Livy's republican counterpart to the rape of Lucretia.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 3 §46 Verginia
The freeborn plebeian maiden whom Appius Claudius schemed to enslave for his lust; her killing by her own father precipitates the fall of the decemvirs.