C. historian of early Rome, and took his stories as exempla of heroism, to be cherished and emulated: Scaevola, Horatius Cocles, and Cincinnatus.
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Like the legendary ancient Roman hero, Publius Horatius Cocles (Horatius to his friends) - who legend has it saved his city and made possible its future glory by singlehandedly holding off an army of Etruscan warriors at a bridge over the Tiber River - he has not been dissuaded from fighting for what he believes in by long odds or intense political pressure.
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