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is he, who, while others were cutting down the Sublician bridge, stood alone against the Etruscans: and with the bridge broken, armed, he threw himself into the river: and swam across to his own men. A second example of virtue followed from Mucius, who, when he had entered the enemy camp to strike Porsena: having killed a scribe, whom he thought to be the king: being captured, he allowed the hand with which he had sacrificed to be consumed on the altars he had been placed upon: and he said that three hundred others had conspired for the death of the King himself. Struck by admiration for them, Porsena offered conditions of peace and ceased the war, having received hostages. Among them, a maiden named Cloelia deceived her guards and swam across the Tiber to her people: and when she was returned: she was honorably sent back by Porsena and gifted with an equestrian statue.
Appius Claudius crossed from the Sabines to Rome: because of this, the Claudian tribe was added. The number of tribes was increased: so that there were thirty-one. Against Tarquinius Superbus, who was bringing war with an army of Latins, Aulus Posthumius the dictator fought successfully at Lake Regillus. The common people, when they had retreated to the Sacred Mount because of those shackled for debt: were recalled from sedition by the counsel of Menenius Agrippa. When the same Agrippa died: he was buried at public expense on account of his poverty. Five tribunes of the people were created. The town of the Volsci, Corioli, was captured by the virtue and labor of Cn. Marcius: who on this account was called Coriolanus.
Titus Latinus, a man of the common people, when he had been admonished in a vision: to report to the senate regarding certain religious rites: and had neglected to do so: having lost his son and been rendered weak, after he had been carried to the senate on a litter and had revealed that same thing: his use of his feet was restored, and he returned home.