Tullus

The cast includes Vanessa Redgrave as the hero's mother, Volumnia, alongside whom today's tiger moms seem toothless; Jessica Chastain as his ardent wife, Virgilia; Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius, his mortal enemy, and Brian Cox as the accommodating senator Menenius.

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Citizens are angry at Coriolanus for withholding grain, but he earns a title as hero of Rome after facing down an army led by Tullus Aufidius (Butler).

First Look: Ralph Fiennes’ Modern Take on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus | /Film 2010

Gerard Butler plays guerrilla leader Tullus Aufidius, Coriolanus' sworn enemy who becomes a primary ally.

Michael Bialas: Denver Film Festival Preview, Part 1: Turn on the Leading Manpower Michael Bialas 2011

Gerard Butler plays guerrilla leader Tullus Aufidius, Coriolanus' sworn enemy who becomes a primary ally.

Michael Bialas: Denver Film Festival Preview, Part 1: Turn on the Leading Manpower Michael Bialas 2011

Gerard Butler plays guerrilla leader Tullus Aufidius, Coriolanus' sworn enemy who becomes a primary ally.

Michael Bialas: Denver Film Festival Preview, Part 1: Turn on the Leading Manpower Michael Bialas 2011

Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request of his country.

The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

The warlike portions did not rouse him much; he said all that was out of date, or should be; the spirit displayed was barbarous; yet the encounter single-handed between Marcius and Tullus Aufidius he delighted in.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Tullus lost the kingdom by not knowing how to secure themselves from those whose [thrones] they had usurped, Tarquinius Superbus lost it by not observing the institution of the ancient Kings, as will be shown in the following chapter.

Discourses 2003

Tullus, after Rome had been at peace forty years, did not find a man (when he succeeded to the Kingdom) who had ever been in war.

Discourses 2003

One is to do as Tullus and Metius did when they committed all the fortune of their country and the virtu of so many men, as both of these had in their armies, to the virtu and fortune of three of their Citizens, which came to be only a minimum part of the forces of each of them.

Discourses 2003