Etruscan votive head of a youth 4th C. BCE

"When both armies had come into the plain and the trumpets had sounded the charge, they raised their war-cries and ran to close quarters; and engaging, horse with horse and foot with foot, they fought there, and great was the slaughter on both sides. The troops on the right wing of the Romans, commanded by Manlius, one of the consuls, repulsed the part of the enemy that stood opposite to them, and quitting their horses, fought on foot. But those on the left wing were being surrounded by the enemy's right wing, since the Tyrrhenians' line at this point outflanked that of the Romans and was considerably deeper. Thus the Roman army was being broken in this sector and was receiving many blows. This wing was commanded by Quintus Fabius, who was a legate and proconsul and had been twice consul. He maintained the fight for a long time, receiving wounds of all kinds till, being struck in the breast by a spear, the point of which pierced his bowels, he fell through loss of blood."

-Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Roman Antiquities: Book 9.11

Etruscan votive head of a youth 4th C. BCE, terracotta. H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.). Ex Jean-Marie Talleux collection, Grand Fort Philippe, France; W.M. collection, San Francisco, acquired from Royal-Athena in November 2000. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. X (1999), no. 81.

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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/9A*.html#11