Original sentence: In the historical legends of ancient Rome, Horatius Cocles, Latin for "Horatius the one-eyed" (Cocles itself a shortening of the Greek word 'Cyclops'), was a hero who, on his own, defended the Pons Sublicius, the bridge that led across the Tiber to Rome, against the Etruscans
Edited sentence: According to Plutarch Cocles is Cyclops, the one-eyed mythological figure of the Odyssey and other Greek literature, mispronounced.As the name, Horatius, indicates, he was member of the ancient gens of the Horatii, a patrician family that had played an outstanding role in the defense of earliest Rome.He participated in the second battle of the Naevian Meadow against the attempted intervention in the republic by king Lars Porsenna of Clusium on behalf of the ousted last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the ancient Roman Republic.This veteran officer had received the agnomen Cocles because he had lost an eye in a previous battle during his career.True or not, the etymology is not otherwise known.Whether a slip of the tongue as Plutarch declares or a derivation through Etruscan as Robert Beekes suggests, the word appears to have been in general use for "one-eye" but is not a native Latin word