Remus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Rĕmus, i, m.,

the brother of Romulus , Liv. 1, 5; 1, 7; Cic. Rep. 2, 2, 4; id. Div. 2, 38, 80; Verg. G. 2, 533; Ov. F. 3, 41; 4, 56; 5, 464.—In the poets, as the ancestor of the Romans, instead of the more usual Romulus: glubit magnanimos Remi nepotes, Cat. 58, 6: turba, Juv. 10, 73 Rupert.: plebs, Mart. 10, 76, 4: regna prima Remi, Prop. 2, 1, 23: domus, id. 4 (5), 1, 9: culmina, Stat. S. 2, 7, 60: signa, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 80.

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