Cocles Publius Horatius

, a celebrated Roman, who, alone, opposed the whole army of Porsenna at the head of a bridge, while his companions behind him were cutting off the communication with the other shore. When the bridge was destroyed, Cocles, though severely wounded in the leg by the darts of the enemy, leaped into the Tiber, and swam acro with his arms. A brazen statue was raised to him in the temple of Vulcan, by the consul Publicola, for his eminent services. He had the use only of one eye , as Cocles signifies. Livy , bk. 2 , ch. 10 .— Valerius Maximus , bk. 3 , ch. 2 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 650 .