Death of Remus. Remus is said to have been the first to receive an omen:six vultures appeared to him. The augury had lust been announced to Romulus when double the number aDDeared to film. -bacn was saiutea as xina oy nzs own party. The one side oasea tnexr claim on me priority or the appearance, the other on the number of the birds. Then followed an angry altercation;heated passions led to bloodshed;_in the丝mult Remus was killed. The more common report is that Remus contemptuouslyiumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith Killect by the enrazea长omulus。wno exclalmecl. “So shall it be henceforth with every on who leaps over my walls.'’Romulus thus became sole ruler, and the city was called after him, its founder. The Legend of Hercules and Cacus.---;his first work: was to fortify the Palatine hill where he had been brought up. The worshiD of the other deities he conducted according to the use or .&loa, out tnat ox jercules in accoraance with one ureec rites as they had been instituted by Evander. It was into this neighbourhood, according to the tradition, that Hercules, after he had killed Geryon, drove his oxen, which were of marvellous He swain across the Tiber, driving the oxen before wearied with his i ournev. lav down in a grassy place J J J-， river to rest himself and the oxen, who enjoyed the rich pasture. When sleep had overtaken hire as he was heavy with food and wine, a.: iepnera nvingnear, cal工GU,七acus. Are- ‘、‘.、’，，ro.护‘头 suming on his strength, and captivated by the beauty of the oxen, determined to secure them., If he drove them before him into the cave,， their hoof-marks would have led their owner on .nis search for. them, in_ the same direction, so he dragged the tinest of thgm backwards by their tails into leis cave. At the first streak of dawn Hercules awoke.' and on survey] ng his herd saw that some were missxng· 只e proceeded towards the nearest cave, to see if any tracks pointed in that direction, but he found that every hoof-mark, led from the cave and none towards it.，Perplexed and bewildered he, Y 1。began to drive the ne狠away。 xroM价“。oan.即rousw飞乎e笋性毕叮艳ood..home of多he 华1711e,乎zssing taose which were iett， benalnd, lowed as they o世“ Go, ana an answering low sounded from the cave. Hercules x 6o3 turned in that direction,’and as Cacus tried to prevent him by force from entering the cave.he was killed by a blow from Hercules' club, after vainly appealing for help to his comrades. The king of the country at that time,was -- 、was wander, a refugee from Peloponnesus, who ruled nlore by personal ascende哪 than妙the exercise of power. He was looked up t0 w1Z11 reverence for., r呼冲owledge of letters--a new and marvellous7 , thing ror uncxvxnsea men- out ne was still more revered because human in greatness and august dignity, he asked who he was. When he heard his name and learnt his father and his country, he said，“Hercules。son of Tupiter, hail!My another, who speaks truth in the name of the gods, has prophesied that thou shalt join the company of the gods, and that here a shrine shall be dedicated to thee, which in ages to come the most powerful nation in all the world shall call their Ara Maxima and honour with thine own special worship." Hercules grasped Evander's right hand and said that he took the omen. to himself and would fulfil the prophecy by building and consecrating the altar. "When a heifer of conspicuous beauty was taken from the herd, and the first sacrifice was offered;the Potitii and Pinarii, the two principal families in those parts, were invited by Hercules to assist in the sacrifice and at the feast which followed. It so happened that the Potitii were present at the appointed time, and the entrails were placed before them; the Pinarii arrived after these were consumed and came in for the rest of the banquet. It became a permanent institution from that timer that as long as the family of the Pinarii survived they should not eat of the entrails of the victims. The Potitii, after being instructed by :Evander, presided, over that rite for many ages, until they handed over this ministerial office to public servants, after which the whole race of the Potitii perished. This out of all foreign rites, was the only one which Romulus adopted, as though he felt that an immortality won through courage, of which this was the memorial, would one day be his own reward.