Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus beseeched by his mother Veturia, wife Volumnia and his two sons, to halt his attack on Rome, 5th Century BC. Roman general Corolianus had led a Volscian army to besiege Rome. Coriolan flechi par sa mere. Copperplate engraving by Joseph Stöber after a design by Hubert-François Gravelot from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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