Virginia: A Tragedy, and Other Poems

by Marion Forster Gilmore

Appius Claudius,
Chief of the Ten and lawgiver of the Romans.
Marcus Claudius,
His client.
Oppius,
One of the Ten.
Virginius,
A Roman centurion; a plebeian.
Icilius,
A tribune of the commons and lover to Virginia.
Sicinius,
A plebeian soldier and an enemy of the Decemvirs.
Horatius,
Galba,
Marius,
Hortensius,
Four Roman citizens.
Tiberius,
A boy of noble birth; brother to Cornelia.
The Ten Decemvirs.
A Porter.

Virginia,
Daughter of Virginius.
Cornelia,
A patrician lady, secretly betrothed to Sicinius.
Camilla,
Nurse to Virginia.
Julia,
A maid.
A Sibyl.
A Slave Girl in the House of Appius Claudius.
Soldiers, Lictors, Women, Rabble, and Serfs.

Setting—Rome. Time—During Supremacy of the Decemvirs.

ACT I—Scene I—The Forum. Scene II—A Street in Rome.

ACT II—Scene I—The House of Appius. Scene II—Women's Apartments in the House of Virginius. Scene III—Garden in House of Virginius. Scene IV—Home of Cornelia.

ACT III—Scene I—The Forum. Scene II—Home of Virginius. Scene III—The Forum.

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VIRGINIA