Famous Men of Rome
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- Aeneas
- Trojan chief; early king of Latins; hero of Aeneid
- Romulus and Remus
- founders of Rome, twin brothers
- Sylvia
- mother of Romulus and Remus
- Vestal Virgins
- attendants to goddess Vesta, vowed not to marry
- Faustulus
- herdsman who named and raised the twins
- Palatine Hill
- where Rome was founded
- Sabines
- tribe from which Romans took their wives
- Tarpeia
- killed at the gate of Capitoline Hill
- Campus Martius
- \"field of Mars (god of war)\"; where soldiers trained
- Tiber River
- river that runs through Rome
- \"It is the will of the gods that Rome shall be the greatest city of the world.\"
- apparition of Romulus
- \"You killed our mother and you shall die for it.\"
- Romulus and Remus