Scaeva, with one eye gone, his thigh and shoulder wounded, and his shield bored through in a hundred and twenty places, continued to guard the gate of a fortress put in his charge.
Acilius in the sea-fight at Massilia grasped the stern of one of the enemy s ships, and when his right hand was lopped off, rivalling the famous exploit of the Greek hero Cynegirus, boarded the ship and drove the enemy before him with the boss of his shield.
Buzz was shot four times in the torso with a .357 magnum revolver from a distance of one foot. His weapon was struck by the fire and rendered inoperable, and although he had a through and through shot in the armpit, and a lung collapsing, he was able to continue the fight and emerge victorious.
