Porsenna
or PORSENA, a celedeclared war against the Romans because brated leader and king of Etruria, who they refused to restore Tarquin to his have entered the gates of Rome had not throne. At first successful, he would Horatius Cocles stood at the head of a Etrurian army, while his companions bridge and resisted the fury of the whole tion with the opposite shore. This act of bravery astonished Porsenna. He made a peace with the Romans, and never after supported the claims of Tarquin. work against the Christian religion- behind were cutting off the communicacondemned to the flames by the Emperor Theodosius Theodosius II. in 453-are preserved in the writings of his adversaries . We have his tractate "On Abstinence from Animal Food"; also his "Homeric Questions," ," in 32 chapters. "Introduction to Ques- Philosophy, " in which the question of realism and nominalism is first mooted; Deriving a Philosophy from Oracles"; and "On the Cave of the Nymphs."
He died in Rome 304 A. D.