_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Dionys. Hal. iv. 64; Cicero, _De Fin._ ii. 20-26; Val. Max. 6, i. 1; Ovid, _Fasti_, ii. 761; Aurel. _De Vir. Ill._ 9; Augustin, _De Civit. Dei_, i. 19. II. _Mediæval_: Vincent Bellov. _Spec. Doct._ iv. 100; _Gesta Rom._, 135; _Violier_, 113. III. _Modern_: Hans Sachs, i. 2, 184; 3, 21, _Ein schön spil von der geschicht der edlen Römerin Lucretia_, Strassburg, 1550, 8vo; Kirchhof, vi. 67-70; _Eutrapelos, i. 92_; _Acerra_, ii. 51; _Histor. Handbüchlein_, 247; Albertinus, 279; Abraham à Sta. Clara, _Etwas für Alle_, ii. 623. _Painter_, Ed. I. i. 5; II. i. 5; III. i. 8; IV. i. 22. _Derivates._--There can be no doubt Shakspeare derived his _Rape of Lucrece_ from Painter, though he has expanded the four pages of his original into 164 stanzas. Heywood has also a play called _The Rape of Lucrece_.] III. MUCIUS SCÆVOLA. The siege of Rome by Porsenna, and the valiaunt deliuerie thereof by Mutius Scæuola, with his stoute aunswere vnto the kinge. [_Source and origin._--Livy, ii. 12. 13. _Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plutarch, _Public_. 17; Valerius Max. 3. 3. I; Dionys. 5 27-30; Aurel. Vict. 72; Cicero, _pro Sext._ 21. 48; Flor. i. 105; Martial, i. 51; Orosius, ii. 5; Augustin, _De Civit._ v. 18; Zonar, vii. 12; Dio Cass. 45, 31; 46, 19; 53, 8. II. _Modern_: H. Sachs, I. 2. 156: 2. 3. 39; Kirchhof, i. 15; Acerra, i. 19; Albertinus, 287. _Painter_, I. i. 7; II. i. 7; III. i. 12; IV. 26. _Derivates._--A play called _Mutius Scevola_ was played at Windsor in 1577 (Fleay, _Hist. of Stage_, p. 380).] IV. CORIOLANUS. Martius Coriolanus goinge aboute to represse the common people of Rome with dearth of Corne was banished. For reuengement whereof he perswaded Accius Tullius king of the Volscians, to make warres upon the Romaynes, and he himselfe in their ayde, came in his owne person. The Citie brought to greate miserye, the fathers deuised meanes to deliuer the same, and sent vnto the Volscian campe, the mother, the wife and children of Coriolanus. Vpon whose complaintes Coriolanus withdrewe the Volscians, and the citie was reduced to quietnes. [_Source and Origin._--Livy, ii. 35 _seq._ _Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Dionys. Hal. viii. 1; Zonar vii. 16; Plutarch _Coriolanus_; Val. Max. 5. 4. I; Dio Cass. (Exc. Vat.) 16 p. 148; Aur. Vict. 19. II. _Mediæval_: Holkot _Narrat._ 175; _Gesta Rom._, Lat. 137; Germ. 89; _Violier_, 115; _Rosarium, i. 120_. III. _Modern_: Abr. à St. Clara; _Laubenhüt_, I. 301; _Acerra_, 2. 17; Albertinus, 291; Kirchhof, vi. 73-6, 82. _Painter_, I. i. 9; II. i. 9; III. i. 35; IV. i. 29. _Derivates._--It is possible that Shakespeare first got the idea of the dramatic capabilities of the story of Coriolanus from Painter though he filled in the details from North’s Plutarch.] V. APPIUS AND VIRGINIA.