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, a king of Cenina, killed by Romulus in single combat, after the rape of the Sabines. His spoils were dedicated to Jupiter Feretrius. Plutarch , Romulus .――A physician of Agrigentum, B.C. 430, educated at Athens with Empedocles. He wrote physical treatises in the Doric dialect, and cured the A then i ans of a plague by lighting a fire near the houses of the infected. Pliny , bk. 29 , ch. 1 .— Plutarch , De Iside et Osiride .――One of the friends of Æneas, killed by Mezentius. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 10 , li. 719 .