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Horatius Cocles
Cocles
also: Horatius Cocles
The legendary Roman hero who held the Sublician bridge single-handed against Lars Porsenna's Etruscans while it was cut down behind him, then swam the Tiber in his armor.
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- Moral Letters to Lucilius §20.120.7 Horatius Cocles
The legendary Roman who held the Sublician bridge alone against Porsenna's Etruscans while it was cut down behind him, then swam the Tiber in full armor.