 | John Dryden - 1833 - Počet stránok 326
...Money is impudent, and will prevail. We never read of such a tyrant king, 453 Virginia was killed by her own father, to prevent her being exposed to the lust of Appius Claudius, who had ill designs upon her. The story at large is in Livy's third book ; and it is a remarkable... | |
 | Juvenal - 1839 - Počet stránok 364
...this, rose in arms, expelled the Tarquins, and changed the monarchy to a commonwealth. 294. Virginia.] A Roman virgin exceedingly beautiful, whom her own...the Decemviri, stabbed in the middle of the forum. Rutiki.'] An ugly deformed old woman, above seventy-seven years old, as Pliny says, was in no danger... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - Počet stránok 420
...Nero, in his more luxurious rage, E'er made a mistress of an ugly page : 475 * Virginia was killed by her own father, to prevent her being exposed to the lust of Appius Claudius, who had ill designs upon her. The story at large is in Livy's third book ; and it is a remarkable... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - Počet stránok 1024
...senate' (D). 1. 442. Sergius: Sergius Catiline 'died fighting' (D). 1.453. Virginia: 'was killed by her own father to prevent her being exposed to the lust of Appius Claudius who had ill designs upon her' (D). 1. 454. make: husband. 1. 479. springald: young man. 371... | |
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Virginia.] A Roman virgin exceedingly beautiful, whom her own father, to prevent her being exposed to the lust of Appius, one of the Decemviri, stabbed in the middle of the forum. 
