Second Decemvirate / Abduction of Virginia

• Appius Crassus wanted plebian girl named Virginia who was engaged to Lucius Icilius (former tribune)
• Virginia refused Appius' advances
• Crassus asked his client to claim that Virginia was a runaway slave which allowed him to put her on trial
• At trial Virginia demanded contact with her father Lucius Verginius who was fighting
• Lucius Icilius told crowd that Crassus was trying to rape Virginia
• Lucius asked to see Virginia’s nurse took a butchers knife and killed his daughter infront of the crowd
• The father then went back to his army and told them what happened
• The men in the army occupied Aventine Hill
• The news of the soldiers occupying Aventine Hill travelled to the city and people from Rome joined them on the hill