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According to later tradition, the mythical twins Romulus and Remus found the city of Rome. Virgil's Aeneid, written in the first century B.C.E., says that the two boys have been raised by a she-wolf following their abandonment by their mother, a Vestal Virgin and descendent of Aeneas, a member of the Trojan royal family who took to wandering the Mediterranean after the Greeks sacked Troy at the end of the Trojan War.
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