Roman youth Gaius Mucius Scaevola putting his hand in the flame before Etruscan king Lars Porsena, 500BC. Soldier in breastplate, leather armour skirts, with his right hand in an altar flame. Helmet on ground. In chalcedony. Mutio Scevola. In calcidonio. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

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