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The power of this brave girl shone brightly when she was crowned as a slave. Porsenna was enchanted by it. He gave Clelia many compliments, and granted her and her companions their freedom. To mark the greatness of her act, he gifted her a war horse, an award reserved for valiant warriors. He desired to express that this act surpassed the deeds of their fathers. Finally, he allowed Clelia to choose from the other hostages those she wished to free. She picked all the young ones as they were the most vulnerable. In this way, she returned to Rome in the joy and magnificence of a victory. She was welcomed with the same honors as when she had left. This time, Roman rigidity gave way to feelings of nature and reason. A statue was erected in her honor in a public place to immortalize the strength and audacity of Clelia and the generosity of Porsenna.

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Clelia is a heroine from the early days of the Roman Republic, marking the war against Porsenna with a feat in 507 B.C. This cunning woman was captured but managed to escape once by crossing the Tiber, before being claimed by Porsenna and surviving an ambush during her second capture. However, the Etruscan king, taken with admiration for her feat, discharged her and allowed her to take with her the hostages of her choice. She chose the children and women, to spare them from any harm to their modesty.
The Tiber is an Italian river that flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Porsenna is an Etruscan leader allied with the Tarquins who temporarily took control of Rome at the end of the 6th century B.C. following the flight of the Tarquins. He is generally not considered a Roman king, as he concluded a peace agreement with Rome, later turning away from the Tarquins.
The Etruscans are a people who live in the center of the Italian peninsula.
The Tarquins are an Etruscan dynasty that ruled Rome before the Republic; they fled Rome after the Lucretia affair, which caused a revolt.
Lucretia is the wife of Tarquin Collatin, a powerful man and a friend of the king Tarquin. After being raped by Sextus Tarquin, the king's son, the young woman committed suicide. This caused a revolt and led to the first Roman Republic.
Mucius, or Caius Mucius Scævola, is a young hero of the early Roman Republic. During the siege of Rome by Porsenna's men, he infiltrated the king's camp to assassinate him. He killed a richly dressed nobleman, mistaking him for the king, and was arrested and brought to Porsenna. During this encounter, he burned his hand while staring intently at Porsenna and said: "See, see how little the body matters to those who seek Glory." Then he told Porsenna that there were three hundred other men like him.
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