en seized by remorse when he was informed ■OHAP. V.] MtJCTUS SCJ5VOLA. 51 that he had despatched a harmless literary man instead of Porsenna.Being taken to the king, Mucius found him sitting before the fire of alarge altar. The Etruscan chief, on hearing the charge, pointed out thepenalty that had… … Mucius Scsevola before Porsenna. and he concluded the act of self incendiarism, by declaring there werothree hundred others who were just as ready as himself to take up armsand burn off a hand, in defiance of their oppressor. Porsenna, who hadwatched the painful process with extreme interest, was…
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