Quid enim iis quae supra rettuli facto Mucii convenientius? cum a Porsenna, rege Etruscorum, urbem nostram gravi ac diutino bello urgueri aegre ferret, castra eius clam ferro cinctus intravit, immolantemque ante altaria conatus occidere est.
For what could be more conformable to the actions I have related above than this of Mucius? Indignant to see our city hard pressed with a severe and protracted war by Porsenna, king of the Etruscans, he entered the kings camp by stealth wearing a sword and tried to kill him as he was sacrificing at the altar.
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