ETRUSCAN INVASION UNDER PORSENA, 507 B.C. (1)
‘How well Horatius kept the Bridge
In the brave days of old.’

[A.]

Nec non Tarquinium eiectum Porsenna iubebat

Accipere, ingentique urbem obsidione premebat;

Aeneadae in ferrum pro libertate ruebant.

Illum indignanti similem, similemque minanti

Aspiceres, pontem auderet quia vellere Cocles,

Et fluvium vinclis innaret Cloelia ruptis.

Vergil, Aen. viii. 646-651.