When Romulus and Remus were grown they kept flocks in the fields of Amulius, but as they killed some of the shepherds of their grandfather Numitor a watch was set for them.  Remus being arrested, Romulus ran and told Faustulus, and he ran to narrate everything to Numitor.  Finally Numitor recognized them to be his own daughter’s children.  They with the assistance of many persons killed Amulius, and after bestowing the kingdom of Alba on their grandfather Numitor themselves made a beginning of founding Rome in the eighteenth year of Romulus’s life.  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.

(Is.  Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1232.  Consequently Dio must have written what is found in Zonaras 7, 3 [vol.  II, p. 91, 7-10:]) “Romulus has been described as eighteen years old when he joined in settling Rome.  He founded it around the dwelling of Faustulus.  The place had been named Palatium.”

3.  I have related previously at some length the story how AEneas founded Lavinium, though these ignorant persons say Rome.  See how they tell the story.  AEneas received an oracle to found the city on the spot where his companions should devour their own tables.  Now when they came to Italy and were in want of tables they used loaves instead of tables.  Finally they ate also the tables—­or the loaves.  AEneas, consequently, understanding the oracle founded there the Lavinian city, even if the ignorant do say Rome. (Is.  Tzetz. on Lycophr. 1250.) (Cp.  Frag.  III, 4.)

4. ¶Rome is part of the Latin country and the Latins have the same name as Latinus, who is said to be the son of Odysseus and Circe, and the Tiber, once called Albulus, received its change of name from the fact that King Tiberius lost his life in it; this is proclaimed by Dio’s history among others.  The Tiberius here meant by the history is not the one subsequent to Augustus, but another who came earlier.  He, they say, died in battle and was carried away by the stream, and so left his own name to the river. (Eustathius on Dionysius, 350.)

5.  Arceisius—­Laertes was a son of Arceisius who was so called either from [Greek:  arkeo arkeso] [Footnote:  These are the first two principal parts of a Greek verb meaning “to be sufficient.”] as if he were able merely to be sufficient ([Greek:  eparkeo]), whence comes the epithet [Greek:  podarkaes] (sufficient with the feet) or else because an arkos or arktos (bear) suckled him, just as some one else was suckled by a horse or goat, and still others by a wolf, among whom were also the Roman chiefs (according to Dio),—­Remus, that is to say, and Romulus, whom a wolf (lykaina) suckled, called by the Italians lupa; this name has been aptly used metaphorically as a title for the demi-monde.  (Eustathius on the Odyssey, p. 1961, 13-16.)