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14 When they were brought to the camp, Porsena, with a look at them, bade them say which one of them was the instigator and leader in the plan. The others, for fear regarding Cloelia, said not a word; but Cloelia of her own accord said that it was herself, and Porsena, in admiration of her, ordered a horse to be brought, fittingly caparisoned, and presented it to her, and then sent them all back kindly and humanely. Many make of this an indication that Cloelia rode across the river on a horse. Others, however, say this is not so, but that Porsena, because he admired her strength and daring as above that of a woman, deemed her worthy of a gift fitting for a warrior. At all events, there stood an equestrian statue of a woman Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Publicola, chap. xix. (107 c); Livy, ii. 13, who gives a slightly different explanation of the virgo insidens equo Pliny, Natural History, xxxiv. 13 (28-29). close beside the Sacred Way, as it is called, and some say that this is the statue of Cloelia, others of Valeria.