. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. ourse to them, and with the greatesttenderness fondled and nursed them. There, in the care of thewolf, a shepherd named Faustulus found them, and carried themhome to his wife, to be reared with his own children. When the boys had grown to be men, they put to death theusurper Amulius, and restored the throne to their grandfatherNumitor. Numitor now reigned at Alba; but Romulus andRemus — for so the brothers were named — had a strong desire 6 From Livys History of Rome, i. and ii. In this connection readMacaulays Lays of Anc
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. ourse to them, and with the greatesttenderness fondled and nursed them. There, in the care of thewolf, a shepherd named Faustulus found them, and carried themhome to his wife, to be reared with his own children. When the boys had grown to be men, they put to death theusurper Amulius, and restored the throne to their grandfatherNumitor. Numitor now reigned at Alba; but Romulus andRemus — for so the brothers were named — had a strong desire 6 From Livys History of Rome, i. and ii. In this connection readMacaulays Lays of Ancient Rome. As to the credibility of theselegends, see par. 301. 7 Italian. 58 ROME AS A KINGDOM. to build a city on the spot where they had been exposed and res-cued. A shameful contest, however, arose between the brothersas to which of the two should give name to the new city. It wasdetermined that the matter should be decided by augury (par. 24).Romulus chose the Palatine and Remus the Aventine hill, fromwhich to wa1 h for the omens. To Remus first appeared six. The Capitoline Wolf. vultures; afterwards twelve appeared to Romulus. Hereuponeach was proclaimed king by his followers, — Remus, on theground that the birds had shown themselves to him first; Romu-lus, on the ground that the greater number had appeared to quarrel ensuing, Remus was killed. Another account, however,says that Remus, when the walls of the new city had been raisedto only a little height, leaped over them in derision; whereuponRomulus in anger slew him, at the same time uttering thesewords : So perish every one that shall hereafter leap over mywall. The city was at length built, and was called Rome, fromthe name of its founder. 41. The Romans capture the Sabine Women for Wives.—The new city, having been made by Romulus a sort of asylum orrefuge for the discontented and the outlawed of all the surround-ing states, soon became very populous, and more powerful thaneither Lavinium or Alba Longa.
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