Chapter 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.]