Faustulus

Those places were at that time wild deserts.

A story prevails that the retiring flood having left on dry ground the trough, hitherto floating, in which they had been exposed, a thirsty she-wolf from the neighbouring mountains directed her course to the cries of the children, and, stooping, presented her dugs to the infants, showing so much gentleness that the keeper of the king herds found her licking the boys with her tongue, and that this shepherd, whose name was Faustulus, carried them home to his wife Laurentia to be nursed.

Some there are who think that this Laurentia, from her having been a prostitute, was by the shepherds called Lupa, and to this circumstance they ascribe the origin of this fabulous tale.

Thus born and thus educated, as soon as years supplied them with strength, they led not an inactive life at the stables or among the cattle, but traversed the neighbouring forests in hunting.

The principal charge made against them was that they had made violent inroads on the lands of Numitor, and, with a band of youths which they had collected, plundered the country in a hostile manner.

In consequence of this, Remus was given up to Numitor to be punished.

From the very beginning Faustulus had entertained hopes that the children whom he educated would prove to be descended of the royal blood, for he knew that the infants of Rhea had been exposed by order of the king, and that the time when he had taken them up corresponded exactly with that event.

But he had resolved to avoid any hasty disclosure, unless some favourable conjuncture or necessity should require it.

Those places were at that time wild deserts.

A story prevails that the retiring flood having left on dry ground the trough, hitherto floating, in which they had been exposed, a thirsty she-wolf from the neighbouring mountains directed her course to the cries of the children, and, stooping, presented her dugs to the infants, showing so much gentleness that the keeper of the king herds found her licking the boys with her tongue, and that this shepherd, whose name was Faustulus, carried them home to his wife Laurentia to be nursed.

Some there are who think that this Laurentia, from her having been a prostitute, was by the shepherds called Lupa, and to this circumstance they ascribe the origin of this fabulous tale.

Thus born and thus educated, as soon as years supplied them with strength, they led not an inactive life at the stables or among the cattle, but traversed the neighbouring forests in hunting.

The principal charge made against them was that they had made violent inroads on the lands of Numitor, and, with a band of youths which they had collected, plundered the country in a hostile manner.

In consequence of this, Remus was given up to Numitor to be punished.

From the very beginning Faustulus had entertained hopes that the children whom he educated would prove to be descended of the royal blood, for he knew that the infants of Rhea had been exposed by order of the king, and that the time when he had taken them up corresponded exactly with that event.

But he had resolved to avoid any hasty disclosure, unless some favourable conjuncture or necessity should require it.

Those places were at that time wild deserts.

A story prevails that the retiring flood having left on dry ground the trough, hitherto floating, in which they had been exposed, a thirsty she-wolf from the neighboring mountains directed her course to the cries of the children, and, stooping, presented her dugs to the infants, showing so much gentleness that the keeper of the king herds found her licking the boys with her tongue, and that this shepherd, whose name was Faustulus, carried them home to his wife Laurentia to be nursed.

Some there are who think that this Laurentia, from her having been a prostitute, was by the shepherds called Lupa, and to this circumstance they ascribe the origin of this fabulous tale.

Thus born and thus educated, as soon as years supplied them with strength, they led not an inactive life at the stables or among the cattle, but traversed the neighboring forests in hunting.

The principal charge made against them was that they had made violent inroads on the lands of Numitor, and, with a band of youths which they had collected, plundered the country in a hostile manner.

In consequence of this, Remus was given up to Numitor to be punished.

From the very beginning Faustulus had entertained hopes that the children whom he educated would prove to be descended of the royal blood, for he knew that the infants of Rhea had been exposed by order of the king, and that the time when he had taken them up corresponded exactly with that event, but he had resolved to avoid any hasty disclosure, unless some favorable conjuncture or necessity should require it.

The necessity happened first, wherefore, constrained by his apprehensions, he imparted the affair to Romulus.

Those places were at that time wild deserts.

A story prevails that the retiring flood having left on dry ground the trough, hitherto floating, in which they had been exposed, a thirsty she-wolf from the neighbouring mountains directed her course to the cries of the children, and, stooping, presented her dugs to the infants, showing so much gentleness that the keeper of the king herds found her licking the boys with her tongue, and that this shepherd, whose name was Faustulus, carried them home to his wife Laurentia to be nursed.

Some there are who think that this Laurentia, from her having been a prostitute, was by the shepherds called Lupa, and to this circumstance they ascribe the origin of this fabulous tale.

Thus born and thus educated, as soon as years supplied them with strength, they led not an inactive life at the stables or among the cattle, but traversed the neighbouring forests in hunting.

The principal charge made against them was that they had made violent inroads on the lands of Numitor, and, with a band of youths which they had collected, plundered the country in a hostile manner.

In consequence of this, Remus was given up to Numitor to be punished.

From the very beginning Faustulus had entertained hopes that the children whom he educated would prove to be descended of the royal blood, for he knew that the infants of Rhea had been exposed by order of the king, and that the time when he had taken them up corresponded exactly with that event.

But he had resolved to avoid any hasty disclosure, unless some favourable conjuncture or necessity should require it.

Those places were at that time wild deserts.

A story prevails that the retiring flood having left on dry ground the trough, hitherto floating, in which they had been exposed, a thirsty she-wolf from the neighbouring mountains directed her course to the cries of the children, and, stooping, presented her dugs to the infants, showing so much gentleness that the keeper of the king-herds found her licking the boys with her tongue, and that this shepherd, whose name was Faustulus, carried them home to his wife Laurentia to be nursed.

Some there are who think that this Laurentia, from her having been a prostitute, was by the shepherds called Lupa, and to this circumstance they ascribe the origin of this fabulous tale.

Thus born and thus educated, as soon as years supplied them with strength, they led not an inactive life at the stables or among the cattle, but traversed the neighbouring forests in hunting.

The principal charge made against them was that they had made violent inroads on the lands of Numitor, and, with a band of youths which they had collected, plundered the country in a hostile manner.

In consequence of this, Remus was given up to Numitor to be punished.

From the very beginning Faustulus had entertained hopes that the children whom he educated would prove to be descended of the royal blood, for he knew that the infants of Rhea had been exposed by order of the king, and that the time when he had taken them up corresponded exactly with that event.

But he had resolved to avoid any hasty disclosure, unless some favourable conjuncture or necessity should require it.

Fabius says that, in his time, his countrymen were still in the habit of singing ballads about the twins.

Even in the hut of Faustulus, so these old lays appear to have run, the children of Rhea and Mars were, in port and in spirit, not like unto swineherds or cowherds, but such that men might well guess them to be of the blood of kings and gods.

Cato the Censor, who also lived in the days of the Second Punic War, mentioned this lost literature, in his lost work on the antiquities of his country.

Many ages, he said, before his time, there were ballads in praise of illustrious men, and these ballads it was the fashion for the guests of banquets to sing in turn while the piper played.