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Prior to this great Rome, which Romulus founded on the Palatine mount about the dwelling of Faustulus, another Rome in the form of a square had been founded by a Romulus and Remus older than these. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1232. He founded it around the dwelling of Faustulus. The place had been named Palatium."
What these circumstances were, will be explained in the next chapter. The temple of Mars at Alba. Its situation. Rhea's fault. Her excuse. The wolf story. Rhea in trouble. Birth of her sons. Antho. The anger of Amulius. Rhea imprisoned. Faustulus. His plan. The box that he made. He follows the stream. The children thrown out upon the sand. The wolf. The woodpecker.
The children rescued by Faustulus. He carries the children home. Their education. The character of the boys. Romulus and Remus are generous and brave. Quarrel among the herdsmen. Remus is suddenly made prisoner. Heavy charges against Remus. Remus before Numitor and Amulius. Remus gives an account of himself. Numitor learns the truth. Romulus. Romulus plans a rebellion. Faustulus and the arts.
We have always supposed ourselves to be the children of Faustulus; but now, since this difficulty has occurred, we have heard new tidings in respect to our origin. We are told that we were found in our infancy, on the shore of the river, at the place where Faustulus lives, and that near by there was a box or trough, in which we had been floated down to the spot from a place above.
This Faustulus took the children and gave them to his wife to rear; and these, when they were of age to go by themselves, were not willing to abide with the flocks and herds, but were hunters, wandering through the forests that were in those parts.
Faustulus was one of Amulius's herdsmen, having the care of the flocks and herds that grazed on this part of the royal domain, but living, like any other shepherd, in great seclusion, in his hut in the forests. He not only rescued the children, but he brought home and preserved the trough in which they had been floated down the river.
But after a while the flood abated, and left the basket wherein the children had been laid on dry ground. Nor did she devour them, but gave them suck; nay, so gentle was she that Faustulus, the King's shepherd, chancing to go by, saw that she licked them with her tongue.
Faustulus said that he was going to carry it to Rhea in her prison, she having often expressed a strong desire to see it, as a token or memorial which would recall the dear babes that had lain in it very vividly to her mind. Amulius seemed satisfied that these statements were honest and true, but they awakened in his mind a very great solicitude and anxiety.
Meantime Faustulus, Amulius's swineherd, brought up the children without any man's knowledge; or, as those say who wish to keep closer to probabilities, with the knowledge and secret assistance of Numitor; for it is said, they went to school at Gabii, and were well instructed in letters, and other accomplishments befitting their birth.
The general interest which was thus awakened in respect to him and to his brother Romulus, revived the slumbering recollections in the minds of the old neighbors of Faustulus, of the stories which he had told them of his having found the twins on the bank of the river, in their infancy.
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