Frank Wolf is standing up for the rest of us against such a prospect like a true Horatius at the bridge.

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C. historian of early Rome, and took his stories as exempla of heroism, to be cherished and emulated: Scaevola, Horatius Cocles, and Cincinnatus.

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In 8 BC, the Latin poet Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, died.

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Legend has it that ancient Rome was spared a devastating invasion by the courage and skill of a great warrior named Horatius, whose singlehanded defense of a bridge kept the enemy hordes at bay.

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It does, however, make the odds against his successful defense of American interests a bit less like those faced by Horatius at the bridge, if not yet the "sure thing" the merits of the case ought to dictate.

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Like the legendary ancient Roman hero, Publius Horatius Cocles (Horatius to his friends) - who legend has it saved his city and made possible its future glory by singlehandedly holding off an army of Etruscan warriors at a bridge over the Tiber River - he has not been dissuaded from fighting for what he believes in by long odds or intense political pressure.

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