Readings of great or naff poems

Horatius Cocles, "Horatius the one-eyed", was a Roman hero who defended the Pons Sublicius, the bridge that led across the Tiber to Rome, against the Etruscans in the second battle of the Naevian Meadow. Horatius was rewarded with as much land as he could plough around in a single day and a statue of him was erected in the temple of Vulcan. It is not known to what extent the story is based on real events. Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay http://conservativeweasel.blogspot.com/2011/12/horatius.html http://www.bartleby.com/360/7/158.html