Word: virgilia
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...opening theme strongly typifies the tempest-tossed soul of the hero, and the beautiful lyrical second theme, the supplicating appeals of his mother. The overture as a whole is doubtless a tone picture of a scene in the Volscian camp, before the gates of Rome, between Coriolanus, Volumnia, and Virgilia, which ends with the hero's, death...