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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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  • opposite side of the stone bridge is the Janiculum. The legend of Publius Horatius Cocles at the bridge appears in many classical authors, most notably in Livy...
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    BC Marcus Horatius Pulvillus, father of the consul of 509, and according to legend, grandfather of Publius Horatius Cocles. Marcus Horatius M. f. Pulvillus...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • fuisset, Horātius Cocles (Livy) 'the bridge on wooden piles almost gave an entrance to the enemy, had it not been for one man, Horatius Cocles' Less often...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Legend has it that Porsena, full of admiration for the acts of valor of Horatius Cocles, Mucius Scaevola and Cloelia, gave up the conquest and returned to...
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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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  • 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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    sublicius defended by Horatius Cocles, and of the posts of the main entrance of the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus on which Marcus Horatius Pulvillus lay his...
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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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  • Mucius Scaevola Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus Hercules Horatii and Curiatii Horatius Cocles Janus Lucius Junius Brutus Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus Lucretia Manius...
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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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    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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    wall Tolkien made use of Livy's tale of the heroic bridge defence by Horatius Cocles, perhaps partly via Macaulay's version in his 1842 Lays of Ancient...
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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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    most famous of them, Horatius, concerns the heroism of Horatius Cocles. It contains the oft-quoted lines: Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the...
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    Horatius Cocles Stopping King Porsenna's Army outside Rome, by Ludwig Refinger. From the same historical cycle that The Battle of Alexander at Issus originally...
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  • Republic, who defended the wooden bridge over the Tiber at the side of Horatius Cocles and Titus Herminius. He was twice consul, in 506 and 490 BC. Titus...
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