The siege of Rome by Porsenna, and the valiaunt deliuerie thereof by
Mutius Scæuola, with his stoute aunswere vnto the kinge.
[_Source and origin._--Livy, ii. 12. 13.
_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plutarch, _Public_. 17; Valerius Max. 3.
3. I; Dionys. 5 27-30; Aurel. Vict. 72; Cicero, _pro Sext._ 21. 48;
Flor. i. 105; Martial, i. 51; Orosius, ii. 5; Augustin, _De Civit._
v. 18; Zonar, vii. 12; Dio Cass. 45, 31; 46, 19; 53, 8. II.
_Modern_: H. Sachs, I. 2. 156: 2. 3. 39; Kirchhof, i. 15; Acerra,
i. 19; Albertinus, 287.
_Painter_, I. i. 7; II. i. 7; III. i. 12; IV. 26.
_Derivates._--A play called _Mutius Scevola_ was played at Windsor
in 1577 (Fleay, _Hist. of Stage_, p. 380).]