person
Lars Porsenna
Porsenna
also: Porsina
The Etruscan king of Clusium who besieged early Rome to restore the Tarquins; the proverbial foreign enemy at the city's gates.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §5.16.5 Porsenna
Lars Porsenna, the Etruscan king who once besieged Rome from outside its walls — a foreign threat less close, Seneca says, than Caesar's.
- On Benefits §7.15.2 Porsenna
Lars Porsenna, the Etruscan king besieging Rome, whom Mucius's self-maiming, though it failed to kill him, as good as defeated.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §3.24.5 Porsenna
Lars Porsenna, Etruscan king of Clusium who besieged early Rome to restore the exiled Tarquins; awed by Mucius's courage, he made peace, and so 'forgave' the man who had come to kill him.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §7.66.51 Porsenna
Lars Porsenna, king of Clusium, who besieged Rome to restore the exiled Tarquins; so awed by Mucius's act that he ordered the fire withdrawn and made peace.