To gain time for him to escape, his two attendants turned to face his pursuers and allowed
to be cut down, Marcus Pomponius at the Porta Trigemina under the Aventine, Publius Laetorius at the bridge over the Tiber where Hora- tius Codes was said to have once singly withstood the
death.
death.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
