RŌMULUS AS QUIRĪNUS
From a coin [45] Caprae[10] palūdem habēret, subitō coorta est
tempestās cum māgnō fragōre tonitribusque et
Rōmulus ē cōnspectū ablātus[11] est. Ad deōs
trānsīsse vulgō crēditus[12] est; cuī[13] reī fidem
fēcit Iūlius Proculus, vir nōbilis. Ortā[14] enim
[50] inter patrēs et plēbem sēditiōne, in cōntiōnem
prōcessit,[15] iūreiūrandō adfīrmāns vīsum[16] ā sē
Rōmulum augustiōre[17] fōrmā, eundemque[18] praecipere[19] ut sēditiōnibus
abstinērent[20] et rem mīlitārem colerent[20]; futūrum[21] ut
omnium gentium dominī exsisterent. Aedēs in colle Quirīnālī
[55] Rōmulō[1] cōnstitūta,[2] ipse[3] prō deō cultus[2] et Quirīnus est
appellātus.
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[4.7] It has been suggested that the name Rōmulus is derived from Rōma, and that this in turn was made from an ancient word Rumon, ‘river.’ Rōma would then be ‘the town by the river,’ ‘Rivertown’ (cf. English ‘Watertown,’ etc.), and Rōmulus would be ‘the man from Rivertown.’
[4.8] dēsum.
[4.9] in proximō: ‘near by.’ Phrases consisting of a preposition and a neuter adjective are common, and have the force of adjectives or adverbs.
[4.10] This grove lay between the two summits of the Capitoline Hill.
[4.11] vīs often means ‘number,’ as here, or ‘quantity’; ‘power’ is used in the same sense in some parts of Great Britain.
[4.12] cum: ‘since’: H 598 (517): M 863: A 326: G 586: B 286, 2.
[5.1] = Rōmulus. Cf. ipsam, I, 5.