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to bring on counter-lightning and to flash back against the lightning2.87 and to hurl thunderbolts, was destroyed, when the lake beside which his palace was founded suddenly overflowed and drowned both him and the palace. And Aventinus his son died in war. And these things concern Lavinium and the Albans; but the affairs of the Romans had as their beginning Numitor and Amulius, who were the grandsons of Aventinus, and descendants of Aeneas. The kingdom in Alba, therefore, having come to them by succession, they wished to divide it and the wealth. So Amulius, having set the wealth on one side, and the kingdom on the other, and urged his brother to choose from the two whichever he preferred, Numitor chose the kingdom, as he was the older brother; but Amulius, taking the wealth and surrounding himself with power from it, also took away the kingdom. And since Numitor had a daughter, fearing that children might be born from her and rise up against him, he appointed her a priestess of Hestia, for this reason intending for her to be unmarried and a virgin for life. But afterwards she was discovered to be pregnant by Ares, as is fabled, but certainly by some man. She was therefore imprisoned for this reason, so that she might not give birth in secret. And she bore twin boys, both large and beautiful. Therefore Amulius, being more afraid, ordered the infants to be cast out. And the one who took them, placing them in a trough, casts them into the river Tiber. And the current, carrying the trough along, brought it down to a certain gentle place; where, they tell the story that a she-wolf approaching2.88 the lying infants offered her teat to them, and that a bird, a woodpecker, was present, feeding and guarding them. And a certain swineherd of Amulius, called Faustulus, secretly took away the infants lying there; and they were raised by his wife, whose name was Larentia; and one was called Romulus, and the other Remus. But some say that the nurse of the children was not a she-wolf, which is more probable or rather most true, and that the story originated in this way. Romans call both she-wolves and prostitutes 'lupae'; and Larentia, who raised the children, being a prostitute, and for this reason being called a 'lupa', gave occasion for the myth. And as they grew, both were high-spirited and manly; but Romulus seemed more remarkable in intelligence and more of a leader by nature than a follower. And when a dispute once arose between the herdsmen of Amulius and those of Numitor, the brothers beat them up and cut off a large part of the herd. But as Remus was walking alone with a few others, the herdsmen of Numitor, lying in ambush, seized him and led him away to Numitor; and he, going to Amulius, begged to receive justice, being a brother and having been insulted by his own kinsmen. But he handed Remus over to Numitor to deal with as he wished. He, having gone home, and seeing the youth excelling in size and strength, and admiring his courage and the freedom of his spirit, questioned him with a gentle voice as to who he was and where he came from. And he, taking courage, said: "We are twin brothers, but our parentage is said to be a secret and our nourishment2.89 and nursing were more wondrous, having been raised by wild beasts and birds while lying in a certain trough beside the great river, which is still preserved, with bronze bands on which faint letters are engraved." Numitor therefore, by both the words of Remus and his appearance, was led to the thought of the exposure of his daughter's children, and Faustulus, having learned of the capture of Remus, urged Romulus to help, then clearly teaching him about his birth (for previously he had only hinted, so that they might not be fainthearted), and he himself, carrying the trough, went to Numitor full of haste and fear. Being regarded with suspicion by the guards around the gates of Amulius, and being flustered in his answers, he did not escape notice while covering the trough with his cloak. And suspecting that he was carrying something stolen, they brought the trough into the open. And a certain one of those who had exposed the little children happened to be present there; who, recognizing the trough, ran and told the

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