Verginia

                In 451 B.C., a Roman patrician named Appius Claudius fell in lust for a plebeian woman named Verginia (also spelled Virginia). She was the daughter of an esteemed centurion named Verginius and betrothed to Lucius Icilius.  Gifts and bribes would not woo the girl, so Claudius turned to subterfuge.  Read more…