Note 68 — I
Reading edition
From Book II of the "History of Rome." Translated by D. Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds. "Cocles" was a nick-name meaning the "one-eyed." With this story every school-boy has been made familiar through Macaulay's "Lay," beginning:
"Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more."