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...is. Who, while others were cutting down the Sublician bridge: he alone withstood the Etruscans: and when the bridge was broken, armed, he threw himself into the river: and swam across to his own men. Another example of virtue followed from Mutius, who, when he had entered the camp of the enemies to strike Porsena: after killing a scribe, whom he thought to be the king: he was captured, and he allowed his hand to be burned, placed upon the altars on which sacrifice had been made: and he said that three hundred such [men] were sworn to the death of the King himself. Forced by admiration for them, Porsena offered conditions of peace, abandoned the war, and received hostages. Among them, the maiden Chloelia deceived her guards and swam across the Tiber to her own people: and when she was returned: she was honorably sent back by Porsena, and gifted with an equestrian statue. Appius Claudius fled from the Sabines to Rome: on account of this, the Claudian tribe was added. The number of tribes was increased, so that there were thirty-one. Aulus Posthumius the dictator fought successfully against Tarquinius Superbus, who was bringing war with an army of Latins, at Lake Regillus. The common people, when they had withdrawn to the Sacred Mount on account of those bound by debt, were recalled from sedition by the counsel of Menenius Agrippa. When the same Agrippa had died: because of [his] poverty, he was buried at public expense. Five tribunes of the people were created. The town of the Volscians, Corioli, was captured by the virtue and effort of Cn. Marcius: who on account of this was called Coriolanus. Titus Latinus, a man of the common people, when he had been admonished in a vision to report certain religious matters to the senate: and had neglected [to do so]: having lost his son, and having become infirm, after he had reported that same thing to the senate from a litter: [and] his use of his feet having been restored, he returned home. With Cn.