Roman youth Mucius Scaevola thrusts his right hand into a fire after failing to kill the Clusian king Lars Porsena, 508 BC. Scaevola had killed Porsena's scribe in error. Attentat de Mucius Scevola sur la vie de Porsenna. Copperplate engraving by Joseph Stöber after a design by Hubert-François Gravelot 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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