reading 5

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Across
  1. 3. Mucius roman solider who snuck into the Etruscan camp and assassinate king Porsenna's scribe thinking it's Porsenna
  2. 5. a woman hostage that escaped from the Etruscan camp by swimming across the tiber river
  3. 6. where Tarquinius Superbus fled to after being exiled out of rome
  4. 7. cocles was stationed at the bridge when the Clusians conquered this place
  5. 8. Porsenna led his troops across this on his first attack directly to rome
  6. 10. Gaius Mucius is threatened with torture by this when he is captured and brought to King Porsenna
  7. 11. Cocles fends off Porsenna's troops while the romans decide to break the bridge
  8. 12. the river that the attacks on the new roman republic took place on
Down
  1. 1. is the number of men Gaius tells Porsenna that are coming to put their right hands in fire
  2. 2. what the Porsenna did on his second attack against the roman republic as a war technique
  3. 4. the name meaning "lefty" that was given to Gaius after returning from the Etruscan camp
  4. 9. the king who helped the Etruscans in the 1st attack against the new roman republic