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    Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the early Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Etruscan...
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    Horatius Coclès is an opera in one act and nine scenes (styled an acte lyrique) by the French composer Étienne Nicolas Méhul with a libretto by Antoine-Vincent...
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  • Curiatii Marcus Horatius Pulvillus, consul in 509 and 507 BC Horatius Cocles, hero who defended the Sublician Bridge Marcus Horatius Barbatus, consul...
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  • Look up Cocles or cocles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cocles, Cocle, or Coclé may refer to: Horatius Cocles, a hero in the historical legends of...
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  • English literature, the story of Horatius at the bridge was re-told by Thomas Babington Macaulay in his poem Horatius, published as part of his Lays of...
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    Porsenna, the king of Clusium, who marches on Rome but is stopped by Horatius Cocles who defends a bridge alone against Porsenna's forces until it can be...
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    Aragorn, Éomer, and Gimli heroically hold off the army of Orcs to Horatius Cocles's heroic defence of a bridge of ancient Rome. Peter Jackson's 2002 film...
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    his nephew, Publius Horatius Cocles, who held the Sublician bridge against the army of Lars Porsena circa 508 BC. The nomen Horatius is said to have been...
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  • obsessaque urbs foret, nī Horātius cōnsul esset revocātus (Livy) 'and the city would have been besieged, if the consul Horatius had not been recalled.'...
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    deciding that her deeds were worthy of admiration equal to that of Horatius Cocles and Gaius Mucius Scaevola. He declared to the Romans that if she were...
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    in French). in 1797. The French—notably Napoleon—nicknamed him "the Horatius Cocles of the Tyrol" (after a hero who had saved ancient Rome) for defeating...
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    (1792) Le jeune sage et le vieux fou (1793) Le congrès des rois (1794) Horatius Coclès (1794) Mélidore et Phrosine (1794) La caverne (1795) Doria (1795) Le...
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    Erato/Apex, 2003. Overtures: Mélidore et Phrosine; Ariodant; Joseph; Horatius Coclès; Bion; Le jeune sage et le vieux fou; Le trésor supposé; Les deux aveugles...
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    triplets of the Horatii and Curiatii families and the great champion Horatius Cocles. Large-scale battles in the Chinese novels Romance of the Three Kingdoms...
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  • The One-Eyed is an epithet of: Horatius Cocles (fl. late 6th century BC), Roman officer famed for defending a bridge against an army Antigonus I Monophthalmus...
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    gave way and plunged into the river. Horatius then jumped into the river. Accounts vary as to whether Horatius survived and swam to shore, or was drowned...
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    historian Livy, Thomas Babington Macaulay described the Roman hero Horatius Cocles holding a bridge over 'Father ... James Bentley (5 July 1988). A guide...
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    Horatius Cocles, engraving by Hendrick Goltzius – an example of a Figura serpentinata...
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    building of the rostra. On the Volcanal there was also a statue of Horatius Cocles that had been moved here from the Comitium, locus inferior, after it...
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    account of Horatius Cocles's heroic defence of Rome's Pons Sublicius bridge. The heroes Aragorn, Éomer, and Gimli hold off the army of Orcs; Horatius holds...
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    Mythology Tyr Odin Irish mythology Nuada Lugh Roman mythology Gaius Mucius Scaevola Horatius Cocles Hindu mythology Mitra Varuna Greek mythology Zeus Ouranos...
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  • Marcus Horatius Pulvillus was consul during the first year of the Roman Republic, in 509, and a second time in 507. His nephew Horatius Cocles played...
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    Horatius Cocles at the bridge, Renaissance plaquette by Master IO.F.F., late 15th century, Padua, 6.1 x 6.0 cm, in a shape for decorating a sword hilt...
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  • Himmel – Il primo navigatore Johann Simon Mayr – Saffo Étienne Méhul – Horatius Coclès, Mélidore et Phrosine Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Das Gespenst mit...
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    qui peut la liberté Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne 1794 Valerius Publicola Horatius Coclès Étienne Nicolas Méhul 1794 A criminal Toulon soumis Jean-Baptiste Rochefort...
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  • General-in-Chief of the French Army of the Alps he get the nicknames "the Horatius Cocles of the Tyrol" by Napoleon and the "Schwarzer Teufel" (Black Devil)...
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    Executive producer One Foot in Hell Mitch Garrett 1961 Duel of Champions Horatius Cocles Filmed in Italy 1962 13 West Street Walt Sherill Producer 1964 The...
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  • unincorporated community Horatio, a faction in the strategy game, Endless Space Horatius Cocles, legendary Roman defender of the Pons Sublicius bridge Horatio (crater)...
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  • Lucius Tarquinius Superbus in Rome, 6th century BC Horatius by Thomas Babington Macaulay: Horatius Cocles vs Lars Porsena, Rome, 6th century BC Roderick the...
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    porch is the death of Lucretia. The frieze over the porch depicts Horatius Cocles, a warrior who defended Rome against the intervention of Lars Porsenna...
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