The plot is an adaptation of the Roman legend about the general who won great victories for the Romans over their enemies the Volscians, but was then forced into exile by his political enemies at home.
Rather, the rock was reserved for the most notorious traitors, and as a place of unofficial, extra-legal executions (for example, the near-execution of then-Senator Gaius Marcius Coriolanus by a mob whipped into frenzy by a tribune of the plebs).
Also in 493, Lartius served as legate to the consul Cominius, his colleague in 501, at the siege of Corioli, where Gaius Marcius Coriolanus gained fame through his valor.
Coriolanus | Gaius Marius | Gaius Cassius Longinus | Gaius | Gaius Marcius Coriolanus | Gaius Hostilius Mancinus | Gaius Gracchus | Gaius Baltar | Coriolanus (play) | Ancus Marcius | Marcius D. Raymond | Gaius Sextius Calvinus (consul 124 BC) | Gaius Sextius Calvinus | Gaius Salvius Liberalis | Gaius Norbanus | Gaius Mucius Scaevola | Gaius Memmius | Gaius Marcius Rutilus | Gaius Lucilius | Gaius Julius Civilis | Gaius Fulcinius | Gaius Flaminius Nepos | Gaius Claudius Glaber | Coriolanus (film) | Gaius Vibius Marsus | Gaius Valerius Flaccus | Gaius Suetonius Paulinus | Gaius Sosius | Gaius Pontius | Gaius Pomponius Graecinus |