Verginia stabbed to death by her son Verginius to save her from the lustful Roman senator Appius Claudius at the Shrine of Venus Cloacina, 449 BC. Virginie tuee par son pere pour la preserver d'Appius. Copperplate engraving by M. Bauer 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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