"Her husband and her father cry aloud."-- No, not Lucretia.
-Virginius,--a brown old soldier, father of a nice girl.

She engaged to a very promising young man.

Decemvir Appius takes a violent fancy to her,--must have her at any rate.

Hires a lawyer to present the arguments in favor of the view that she was another man's daughter.

There used to be lawyers in Rome that would do such things .-- All right.