RAMNES

The name of the first centurv of the 300 horsemen who constituted the cavalry of Rome under the early kings. Most probably the name also applied at first to the original century of patrician houses established by RomuluS, and distinguished them from the Tatienses and Luceres; whose names, in like manner, must be supposed to extend not merely to the two remaining centuries of cavalry, but to the two centuries of tribes respectively institulcnl by Romulus, on the acce ion of the Sabines and Tarquinius Priscus. (Sie the histories of Niebuhr and Arnold.) R.\ MP. (Fr. Rampe.) In Architecture, a concave bend or slope in the cap or up])er member of any piece of ascending or descending workman.ship. [s. 1035]