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 gens was of great antiquity. It frequently filled the highest honors of the state during the early years of the Republic. The first of the family who obtained the consulship was Opiter Verginius Tricostus in 502 BC, the seventh year of the Republic. The plebeian members of the family were also numbered amongst the early tribunes of the people.[1]
^Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
The gensVerginia or Virginia was a prominent family at ancient Rome, which from an early period was divided into patrician and plebeian branches. The...
Verginia, or Virginia (c. 465 BC – 449 BC), was the subject of a story of ancient Rome, related in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita. Verginia, upon threat to her...
(consul 478 BC) and Aulus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus (consul 476 BC). Verginiagens Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon...
tomb are in Ladispoli and the nearby Roman villa may have been his. Verginiagens The archaeological sites of the Tolfa mountains http://www.archeoetruria...
The gens Numitoria was an ancient but minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. The first member of this gens to appear in history was Lucius Numitorius,...
Look up gens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals...
were routed. Livy alleged that Appius Claudius was sexually interested in Verginia, the daughter of a plebeian, Lucius Verginius, who was a centurion absent...
(born 2003), French footballer Any of various members of the Roman gensVerginia, also spelled Virginia Virginius E. Clark (1886–1948), American aviator...
re-elected as consul in 434 BC. Verginius belonged to the patrician Verginiagens which had flourished in the early years of the Republic but would fade...
The gens Manilia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are frequently confused with the Manlii, Mallii, and Mamilii. Several of the...
novus homo ("new man") who was the first consul to come from his plebeian gens. Volumnius served as consul twice, in 307 BC and 296 BC, both times in partnership...
Lucretia (Veronese) Ancient Rome portal Biography portal Lucretia gensVerginia The Rape of the Sabine Women Matter of Rome "Titus Livius (Livy), The...
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...
The gens Opetreia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are known to have held any important magistracies, but a number of them...
The original one was for women of the patrician class only, but when Verginia was excluded on account of marrying a plebeian consul, she and a group...
One of the decemviri, Appius Claudius Crassus, tried to force a woman, Verginia, to marry him. To prevent this, her father stabbed her and cursed Appius...
downfall. Appius was disgraced and taken into custody after trying to claim Verginia, the daughter of Lucius Verginius, a notable centurion, as his slave. Gaius...
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