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Horatius Cocles

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Horatius Cocles

In Roman mythology, one of three heroes who held the bridge over the River Tiber against the invading army of Lars Porsena, King of Clusium, in 507 BC.

At the end Horatius defended the bridge single-handedly, and escaped by swimming the Tiber.


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