ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 1.5 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
body of vounea men, they associated themselves in their serious 砂.叮、.尹 I undertakings and in their: sports and pastimes. v_ Romulus recoznised, Amulius killed.一工tiss r二,r,,?‘户1.了 testxvai ox me .L,upercalia, which is still observed, waseVenln le :Palatine hill. This hi 11 was or啥inally called Pallantium from a city of the same name in Arcadia; the name was afterwards chanted to Palatium. :Evander, an Arcadian, hac1 hew that terrxtorv manv axes before, and had introduced an annual festival from Arcadia in which young men ran about naked for sport and wantonness, in honour of the Lycaean Pan, whom the Romans afterwards called xnuus. The existence of this festival was widely recognised, and it was while the two brothers were engaged, in、 it that the brigands,^" Y Y ti . Y Y1 7 enraged犷娜ing.their plu叫er,1,ambushed them. R.omulus successfully defended himself,,.,but Remus. was taken prisoner and broug笋before Amui些,his. c叩tors. impu严nt攫accusing him of their own crimes. The principal charge brought against them was that of invading Numitor's lands with a body of younz men whom they had tot together, and carryiniz ott plunder as thouvh in rezular warfare. Kemus accorainvy was nanaea over toNumitor for punishment. Yaustulus had from the beginning suspected that it was roval offslDrina that he was brinizinz uD,for he was aware that the bovs had been exposed at the kinLy's command and, the time 就which he had taken them awav,exactIv corresponded with that of their exposure.且e had, however, refused to divulge the matter prematurely, until either a fitting opportunity occurred or necessity demanded its disclosure. ,Tb e necess江Y came五rst. Alarmed ‘the safety of Remus ne revealed the state of the case to omulus It so happened that Numitor also, who had Remus in his custody, on hearing that he and his brother were twins, and comparing their ages, and the character and bearing so unlike that of one, in a,, servile condition, began ., r, 1 , ",, , e ., 犷recd毕万he memo笋of his grandchildren,赞a further inquiries brought Dim to the same conclusion as r austulus;nothing was wanting to the recognition of Remus. So the king A.rnulius was呼ing enmes乡ed on all. sides. by。 hostile purposes.琴omulus shrunk from a direct attack with his body of shepherds, for he was no match for the king in open fight. They were instructed to approach the palace by different routes and meet there at a given time, whilst from. Numitor's house R.emus lent his assistance with a second band he had collected. The attack succeeded and the king was killed.

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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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