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Horatius ' action at the bridge halted the Etruscan attack and forced Lars Porsena to engage in a protracted siege of Rome rather than sacking it outright, which was later concluded by peace treaty with the city intact.
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Hearing of the doings at Rome the king, his sons and a party of retainers rode posthaste for the city, leaving Titus Herminius and Marcus Horatius in command of the troops at Ardea.
Horatius at the bridge, Renaissance plaquette, Wallace Collection
" Florus has something similar to say: " It was on this occasion that those three prodigies and marvels of Rome made their appearance, Horatius, Mucius and Cloelia, who, were they not recorded in our annals, would seem fabulous characters at the present day.
According to tradition it was a rite of purification that served at the expiation of Publius Horatius who had murdered his own sister when he saw her mourning the death of her betrothed Curiatius.
The motto " Carpe Diem ", traditionally at Kearsney translated " Seize the Opportunity ", comes from the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known as Horace, ( Odes 1, xi, 8 ).
Titus ' brother, Spurius Lartius, was one of the heroes of the Republic, who defended the wooden bridge over the Tiber at the side of Horatius Cocles and Titus Herminius.
" Due to this, she kept herself to herself, sleeping not in the house, but in a tent which she pitched in the garden for three years, and kept a pet spider at the entrance which she named Horatius, as well as other pets including cats, lizards, tortoises, toads, dogs and a goat.
The legend of Publius Horatius Cocles at the bridge appears in many classical authors, most notably in Livy.
Its authorship is discussed at length in the dissertation of Horatius de Turre.
Horatius and bridge
This animated depiction shows the phases of the battle, including the defense of the bridge by Horatius.
" They called on Horatius to retreat but perceiving the tactical difficulty of allowing the enemy to cross he stood his ground, directing them to tell the consuls to tear up the bridge.
Lays of Ancient Rome ( 1842 ) by Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1800-1859 ) tells the legendary story of the Roman Horatius defending the bridge into Rome against Lars Porsena's oncoming Etruscan army.
* Horatius Cocles, legendary Roman defender of the Pons Sublicius bridge
However, Horatius, with the assistance of Spurius Lartius and Titus Herminius Aquilinus, sought to buy time and halt the attack by defending the opposite end of the bridge while the Roman soldiers broke the bridge.
Horatius and Lars
Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the ancient Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Lars Porsena, king of Clusium in the late 6th century BC, during the war between Rome and Clusium.
* Publius Horatius Cocles, hero who defended the Sublician Bridge against the army of Lars Porsena.
Horatius and Rome
The story is retold in Horatius from the Lays of Ancient Rome by Lord Macaulay, a poem of great popularity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
* Horatius Cocles, a hero in the historical legends of ancient Rome
The painting shows the three sons of Horatius swear on their swords, held by their father, that they will defend Rome to the death.
* The story of the Horatii involves a sororicide: after a set of Roman triplets, the Horatii, defeat a set of Alba Longan triplets, the Curiatii, in single combat to keep Rome from Alba Longan rule, the Horatii's sister was killed by the surviving Horatius for mourning the death of one of the Curiatii, to whom she was engaged.
Upon defeat of the Curiatii, the remaining Horatius journeyed home to find his sister cursing Rome over the death of her fiancé.
Already immortal in literature, Horatius ' fame was augmented in modern times by Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1842 poem, Horatius, from his Lays of Ancient Rome:
Horatius and than
This new publication is, in Horatius ' words, " a monument more lasting than bronze " to this woman who, along with so many others, fell victim to what many consider to be the greatest crime of the 20th century.
Horatius and which
b ) The Tigillum Sororium would be related to a cult of wood of the Horatii, as shown by the episodes of the pons sublicius defended by Horatius Cocles and of the posts of the main entrance of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, on which Marcus Horatius Pulvillus lay his hand during the dedication rite.
* Horatius Flaccus ( 1869 ), in which, on aesthetic grounds, he rejected many of the odes as spurious
The very first original Star Trek novel to be published was Mission to Horatius by Mack Reynolds, which was published in hardcover by Whitman Books in 1968.
The work by which Hand is chiefly known is his ( unfinished ) edition of the treatise of Horatius Tursellinus ( Orazio Torsellino, 1545-1599 ) on the Latin particles ( Tursellinus, seu de particulis Latinis commentarii, 1829-1845 ).
Horatius and was
It was in accordance with this direction that the consul Horatius dedicated the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in the year following the expulsion of the kings ; from the Consuls the ceremony of fastening the nails passed to the Dictators, because they possessed greater authority.
He was a patrician, and the nephew of consul Marcus Horatius Pulvillus and had lost an eye in a previous battle ( hence his agnomen " Cocles ".
Wounded as he was Horatius was honorably crowned and conducted into the city by a singing crowd while the populace streamed into the streets to see him.
Horatius was now disabled and could not by law remain in the army or hold public office.
* Vulcanal, a statue in honor of Horatius Cocles was said to have been set up here.
This rite was supposed to commemorate the expiation of the murder of his own sister by Marcus Horatius.
Lucius Valerius Potitus was one of two consuls who were said to have replaced the decemvirs in 449 BC ( Marcus Horatius Barbatus being the other ).
The most famous person bearing the name was the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus ( 65 BC-8 BC ).
* Fabius Dossennus, a Latin comic playwright, whose style and care was criticized by Quintus Horatius Flaccus.
The son of retired Congresswoman Carrie P. Meek ( née Pittman ) and Harold H. Meek, Kendrick was born in Miami, Florida, He is the great grandson of The Reverend Horatius " H. H.
* Horatius Bonar ( 1808 – 1889 ) was a Scottish churchman and poet.
When the victorious Horatius returned carrying the spoils of victory, his sister cried out in grief because she realized the Curiatius to whom she had been engaged was dead.
" For the murder, he was condemned to death but, upon the advice of a certain jurist named Tullus, Horatius appealed to the assembly of the people.
Horatius Bonar ( 19 December, 1808 – 31 May, 1889 ) was a Scottish churchman and poet.
The poem was later set to " Lauriger Horatius ", the tune of O Tannenbaum, a melody popular in the South, and referred to the riots with lines such as " Avenge the patriotic gore / That flecked the streets of Baltimore.
The lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus was another philhellene.
He was especially close to some of the greatest biblical teachers of his day, including James Martin Gray, Cyrus Scofield, A. C. Dixon, Horatius Bonar and E. W. Bullinger.
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