The mortal combat between the Horatii triplets from Rome and the Curiatii triplets from Alba Longa, 7th century BC. The last Roman Horatius brother emerges victorious before the watching armies. During the reign of the legendary third king of Rome, Tullus Hostilius. Combat des Horaces et des Curiaces. Copperplate engraving by David Weis after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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