Roman general Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus orders the beheading of his son for disobeying orders during the war against the Latins, 340 BC. Manlius Torquatus fait oter la vie a son fils qui avoit combattu malgre sa deffense. 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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