115. Coriolanus - Plutarch continues. to satisfy a revengeful humor, you brought misery on your friends
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We conclude the reading of Plutarch's life of Coriolanus. The women of Rome, led by his mother and wife, persuade Coriolanus to give up his siege of Rome. His Volscian enemy engineers his death.
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