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Tiber (Italy) (search for this): book 6, chapter 55
Patriotism and Purity At Rome
The story goes that Horatius Cocles, while fighting
Horatius Cocles.
with two enemies at the head of the bridge
over the Tiber, which is the entrance to the
city on the north, seeing a large body of
men advancing to support his enemies, and fearing that
they would force their way into the city, turned round, and
shouted to those behind him to hasten back to the other
side and break down the bridge. They obeyed him: and
whilst they were breaking the bridge, he remained at his
post receiving numerous wounds, and checked the progress
of the enemy: his opponents being panic stricken, not so much
by his strength as by the audacity with which he held his
ground. When the bridge had been broken down, the attack
of the enemy was stopped; and Cocles then threw himself into
the river with his armour on and deliberately sacrificed his
life, because he valued the safety of his country and his own
future reputation more highly than his present life, and the
years of