Lars Porsena, Etruscan king of Clusium, presenting Roman hostage Cloelia with a horse, 508 BC. Cloelia and her virgins asked for the freedom of the youngest Roman boy hostages. Presens de Porsenna a Clelie. Copperplate engraving by János Blaschke after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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