Romulus

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.14 founder of the mistress-City

  Romulus, founder and first king of Rome, son of Mars and Ilia.

• The Art of Love §1.4 Romulus

  Founder and first king of Rome, who staged the games at which the Sabine women were seized.

• The Festivals §proem Romulus

  Founder and first king of Rome, who (the poem says) set ten months in his year, knowing arms better than the stars.

• The Festivals §4.proem son of Ilia

  Romulus, founder of Rome, who ordered the months and traced the line back to Venus and Mars.

• The Festivals §5.proem Romulus

  Founder and first king of Rome, later deified as Quirinus.

• The Festivals §6.proem Romulus

  Founder and first king of Rome, later deified as Quirinus.

• Metamorphoses §14.467 the son of Ilia

  Romulus, son of Ilia (Rhea Silvia), who had barred the gates against the Sabine night-attack.

• Metamorphoses §14.468 the soldier of Mars

  Romulus, son of Mars; the hot spring holds the gate only until he can arm and meet the Sabines in the open.

• Metamorphoses §15.501 Romulus once saw

  Rome's founder, whose spear took root on the Palatine.