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VIRGINIUS. Verginius was Verginia's father in Livy's account, Ab urbe condita liber III.xliv-lviii, who stabs his daughter in the marketplace to save her from the lecherous judge Appius. [Apius: Claudius2: Virginia]

Virginius, the English variant of Latin Verginius, the family's clan name, occurs twice initially, PhysT 175, 191; once medially, PhysT 272; and five times in final rhyming position, PhysT 2, 167, 180, 197, 203.

John Gower, The Complete Works, ed. G.C. Macaulay, III: 377-382; Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, ed. and trans. B.O. Foster, II: 142-199; RR, ed. E. Langlois, II: 263-265; RR, trans. C. Dahlberg, 114.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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