Coriolanus
Coriolanus, Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus(Gaius in Dionysius Halicarnassius and Plutarch), a Roman aristocrat who supposedly received his surname from his part in the Roman capture of Corioli from the Volsci (493 BC). According to the story he went into exile when charged with tyrannical conduct and opposing the distribution of grain to the starving plebs. Welcomed by the Volscians of Antium, he became their leader in a war against Rome. In two devastating campaigns he captured a series of Latin towns and led his forces to the gates of Rome, where he was persuaded to turn back by his mother Veturia and his wife Volumnia (in Plutarch they are named as Volumnia and Vergilia respectively). He was then killed by the Volscians (although Quintus Fabius Pictor, fr. 17 Peter, believed that he lived into old age). It is uncertain how much, if any, of this famous story is based on fact. Coriolanus does not appear in the fasti, and although
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