ROMULUS AND REMUS

were, according to tradition, twin sons by Mars of the vestal virgin Rhea Silvia, dau. of Numitor, king of Alba Longa. Exposed at their birth, they were suckled by a she-wolf and adopted by a shepherd Faustulus and his wife Acca Laurentia. Romulus founded Rome, 753 B.C., slew Remus (who showed his scorn of the city by leaping over its wall), secured wives for its citizens by the Rape of the Sabine Women, reigned nearly forty years, was translated in a thunderstorm, and afterwards worshiped as Quirinus. 59’ N., 1° 20’ W.), village, in Pyrenees, Navarre, Spain; Charlemagne’s army defeated and Roland killed here by Saracens, 778. town, summer resort, Malaga, Spain; famous bull-fights. Pop. 23,000.