The illustration for the humorous book <i>The General History Edited by Satyricon</i>.
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<td style="padding:0 10px;">Mucius decided to kill Porsena, but, in absence of mind, he killed somebody else. Mucius had got hungry during these activities and started making his supper, but instead of a piece of beef he, in absence of mind, shoved his own hand into the fire.
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alexandre_Jacovleff" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alexandre Jacovleff"><span title="French painter (1887-1938)">Alexandre Jacovleff</span></a>
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Scanned from: <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">(in Russian) (2004) <i> Всеобщая история, обработанная «Сатириконом»</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moscow" class="extiw" title="w:en:Moscow"><span title="capital and most populous city of Russia">Moscow</span></a>:  Айрис Пресс, p. 59  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" class="extiw" title="en:International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a>:  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-8112-0905-3" title="Special:BookSources/5-8112-0905-3">5-8112-0905-3</a>. </small></cite>