Rasa-Jala-Nidhi, or Ocean of Indian Chemistry & Alchemy, vol. 1

is. 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 people. Another example of virtue followed from Mucius. Who, when he had entered the camp of the enemies to strike Porsena: having killed the scribe, whom he thought to be the king: having been captured, he let his hand be burned, which he had placed on the altars where sacrifice had been made: and he said that three hundred such men had conspired for the death of the King himself. Forced by admiration for them, Porsena offered conditions of peace and abandoned the war, after receiving hostages. From among whom, a virgin named Chloelia, having deceived the guards, swam across the Tiber to her own people: and when she had been returned: she was honorably sent back by Porsena, and was gifted with an equestrian statue. Appius Claudius fled from the Sabines to Rome: because of this, the Claudia tribe was added. The number of tribes was increased: so that there were thirty-one. Against Tarquinius Superbus, who was bringing war with the army of the Latins, Aulus Posthumius the dictator fought successfully at Lake Regillus. The commoners, when they had withdrawn to the Sacred Mount because of those shackled for debt: were called back from sedition by the counsel of Menenius Agrippa. The same Agrippa, when he had died: was buried at public expense because of his poverty. Five tribunes of the plebs were created. The town of the Volscians, Corioli, was captured by the virtue and effort 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 certain religious matters to the senate: and had neglected to do so: having lost his son, and having become infirm, after he had reported those same things to the senate while carried on a litter: having recovered the use of his feet, he returned home.