children, and was one employed in the office; he, seeing the
trough and knowing it by its make and inscription, guessed at the
business, and, without further delay, telling the king of it,
brought in the man to be examined. Faustulus, hard beset, did not
show himself altogether proof against terror; nor yet was he
wholly forced out of all: confessed indeed the children were
alive, but lived, he said, as shepherds, a great way from Alba; he
himself was going to carry the trough to Ilia, who had often
greatly desired and handle it, for a confirmation of her hopes of
her children. As men generally do who are troubled in mind and act
either in fear or passion, it so fell out Amulius now did; for he
sent in haste as a messenger, a man, otherwise honest and friendly
to Numitor, with commands to learn from Numitor whether any
tidings were come to him of the children's being alive. He, coming
and seeing how little Remus wanted of being received into the arms
and embraces of Numitor, both gave him surer confidence in his
hope, and advised them, with all expedition, to proceed to action;
himself too joining and assisting them, and indeed, had they
wished it, the time would not have let them demur. For Romulus was
now come very near, and many of the citizens, out of fear and
hatred of Amulius, were running out to join him; besides, he
brought great forces with him, dividing into companies, each of an
hundred men, every captain carrying a small bundle of grass and
shrubs tied to a pole. The Latins call such bundles "manipuli,"
and from hence it is that in their armies still they call their
captains "manipulares." Remus rousing the citizens within to
revolt, and Romulus making attacks from without, the tyrant, not
knowing either what to do, or what expedient to think of for his
security, in this perplexity and confusion was taken and put to
death. This narrative, for the most part given by Fabius and