very rare sight, and you can seldom meet with a man that has seen
their young; their rarity and infrequency has raised a strange
opinion in some, that they come to us from some other world; as
soothsayers ascribe a divine origination to all things not
produced either of nature or of themselves.

When Remus knew the cheat, he was much displeased; and as Romulus
was casting up a ditch, where he designed the foundation of the
city wall, he turned some pieces of the work to ridicule, and
obstructed others: at last, as he was in contempt leaping over it,
some say Romulus himself struck him, others Celer, one of his
companions; he fell, however, and in the scuffle Faustulus also
was slain, and Plistinus, who, being Faustulus's brother, story
tells us, helped to bring up Romulus. Celer upon this fled
instantly into Tuscany, and from him the Romans call all men that
are swift of foot Celeres; and because Quintus Metellus, at his
father's funeral, in a few days' time gave the people a show of
gladiators, admiring his expedition in getting it ready, they gave
him the name of Celer.

Romulus, having buried his brother Remus, together with his two
foster-fathers, on the mount Remonia, set to building his city;
and sent for men out of Tuscany, who directed him by sacred usages
and written rules in all the ceremonies to be observed, as in a
religious rite. First, they dug a round trench about that which is
now the Comitium, or Court of Assembly and into it solemnly threw
the first-fruits of all things either good by custom or necessary
by nature; lastly, every man taking a small piece of earth of the
country from whence he came, they all threw them in promiscuously
together. This trench they call, as they do the heavens, Mundus;