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Virgilia may refer to:
- Virgilia, the wife of Coriolanus in Shakespeare's play Coriolanus
- Virgilia, California, an unincorporated community
- Virgilia, the wife of the Roman general Gaius Marcius Coriolanus
- Virgilia (plant), a genus of South African trees in the Fabaceae family
- Virgilia (insect), a genus of true bugs in the Lophopidae family
- Virgilia Hazard, a fictitious abolitionist character in the popular TV miniseries North and South
- A common name for Cladrastis kentukea, a tree of eastern North America
- Virgilia, character of 07th Expansion Sound Novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Virgilia is a genus of Southern African trees in the family Fabaceae, having shiny to hairy pinnate leaves and attractive mauve to pink pea-shaped flowers followed by leathery pods. They are valued as useful ornamental trees by gardeners, particularly the well-known species Virgilia divaricata ('Tree in a Hurry', 'Cape Lilac', 'Blossom Tree') and Virgilia oroboides ('Pink Blossom Tree'), despite having a comparatively short life (15 years). They prefer well drained soils; some will then grow 2m in the first season. They will tolerate wind and have dense foliage growing close to the ground, so they are useful as pioneer species for privacy and wind protection. The common name in South Africa (in Afrikaans) is keurboom, meaning 'choice tree'.
Virgilia is the wife of Coriolanus in William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus (1607–1610), in which same play Volumnia is his mother. With respect to the legendary figure Caius Marcius Coriolanus, some accounts (Brewer 1898) say that his wife's name was actually Volumnia, probably following the Roman historian Livy. However, in the very influential account of his life, and one familiar to Shakespeare, namely, Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, the wife's name is Virgilia, or in John Dryden's translation, Vergilia. Virgilia is described by John Ruskin as "perhaps loveliest" of Shakespeare's female characters.
Usage examples of "virgilia".
That Virgilia Samms was the most accomplished muscle-reader of her times.
Full rapport is more intimate than a kiss: no one except her father had ever really put a Lens on Virgilia Samms.
Kinnison called his own wife and their daughter, Virgilia Samms, and Mrs.
Thus, very shortly, Virgilia Samms found herself, completely helpless and completely unrecognizable, walking awkwardly out of the house between a businesslike doctor and a solicitous nurse.
Valeria wants Virgilia to come out on the town with her but Virgilia will not.
To a situation like that of the banishment he proved easily equal: indeed, he gave that magnificent outburst of scorn with tremendous power: but it was in the pathetic scene with Volumnia and Virgilia that he reached the summit of the Shakespearean conception.