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Plutarch, Romulus, 11.1

ὁ δὲ Ῥωμύλος ἐν τῇ Ῥεμωρίᾳ Ῥεμωνίᾳ Coraës and Bekker, with C: Ῥεμορίᾳ . θάψας τὸν Ῥέμον ὁμοῦ καὶ τοὺς τροφεῖς, ᾤκιζε τὴν πόλιν, ἐκ Τυρρηνίας μεταπεμψάμενος ἄνδρας ἱεροῖς τισι θεσμοῖς καὶ γράμμασιν ὑφηγουμένους ἕκαστα καὶ διδάσκοντας ὥσπερ ἐν τελετῇ. βόθρος γὰρ ὠρύγη περὶ τὸ νῦν Κομίτιον κυκλοτερής, ἀπαρχαί τε πάντων, ὅσοις νόμῳ μὲν ὡς καλοῖς ἐχρῶντο, φύσει δʼ ὡς ἀναγκαίοις, ἀπετέθησαν ἐνταῦθα. καὶ τέλος ἐξ ἧς ἀφῖκτο γῆς ἕκαστος ὀλίγην κομίζων μοῖραν ἔβαλλον εἰς ταὐτὸ καὶ συνεμείγνυον. Romulus buried Remus, together with his foster-fathers, in the Remonia, See chapter ix. 4. and then set himself to building his city, after summoning from Tuscany men who prescribed all the details in accordance with certain sacred ordinances and writings, and taught them to him as in a religious rite. A circular trench was dug around what is now the Comitium, A space adjoining the forum where the people met in assembly. The mundus, or augural centre of the city, was really on thePalatine. and in this were deposited first-fruits of all things the use of which was sanctioned by custom as good and by nature as necessary; and finally, every man brought a small portion of the soil of his native land, and these were cast in among the first-fruits and mingled with them.

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1. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.85.6, 1.87.3 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) 1.85.6.  They did not both favour the same site for the building of the city; for Romulus proposed to settle the Palatine hill, among other reasons, because of the good fortune of the place where they had been preserved and brought up, whereas Remus favoured the place that is now named after him Remoria. And indeed this place is very suitable for a city, being a hill not far from the Tiber and about thirty stades from Rome. From this rivalry their unsociable love of rule immediately began to disclose itself; for on the one who now yielded the victor would inevitably impose his will on all occasions alike. 1.87.3.  Remus having been slain in this action, Romulus, who had gained a most melancholy victory through the death of his brother and the mutual slaughter of citizens, buried Remus at Remoria, since when alive he had clung to it as the site for the new city. As for himself, in his grief and repentance for what had happened, he became dejected and lost all desire for life. But when Laurentia, who had received the babes when newly born and brought them up and loved them no less than a mother, entreated and comforted him, he listened to her and rose up, and gathering together the Latins who had not been slain in the battle (they were now little more than three thousand out of a very great multitude at first, when he led out the colony), he built a city on the Palatine hill.
2. Livy, History, 27.25.7 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
3. Plutarch, Fabius, 22.5-22.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 22.5. While everything else was carried off as plunder, it is said that the accountant asked Fabius what his orders were concerning the gods, for so he called their pictures and statues; and that Fabius answered: Let us leave their angered gods for the Tarentines. 22.5. While everything else was carried off as plunder, it is said that the accountant asked Fabius what his orders were concerning the gods, for so he called their pictures and statues; and that Fabius answered:Let us leave their angered gods for the Tarentines. 22.6. However, he removed the colossal statue of Heracles from Tarentum, and set it up on the Capitol, and near it an equestrian statue of himself, in bronze. He thus appeared far more eccentric in these matters than Marcellus, nay rather, the mild and humane conduct of Marcellus was thus made to seem altogether admirable by contrast, as has been written in his Life. Chapter xxi. Marcellus had enriched Rome with works of Greek art taken from Syracuse in 212 B.C. Livy’s opinion is rather different from Plutarch’s: sed maiore animo generis eius praeda abstinuit Fabius quam Marcellus, xxvii. 16. Fabius killed the people but spared their gods; Marcellus spared the people but took their gods.
4. Plutarch, Marcellus, 21 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
5. Plutarch, Romulus, 9.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 9.4. But when they set out to establish their city, a dispute at once arose concerning the site. Romulus, accordingly, built Roma Quadrata (which means square ),and wished to have the city on that site; but Remus laid out a strong precinct on the Aventine hill, which was named from him Remonium, but now is called Rignarium.
6. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 11.2.20-11.2.21 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 11.2.20.  These symbols are then arranged as follows. The first thought is placed, as it were, in the forecourt; the second, let us say, in the living-room; the remainder are placed in due order all round the impluvium and entrusted not merely to bedrooms and parlours, but even to the care of statues and the like. This done, as soon as the memory of the facts requires to be revived, all these places are visited in turn and the various deposits are demanded from their custodians, as the sight of each recalls the respective details. Consequently, however large the number of these which it is required to remember, all are linked one to the other like dancers hand in hand, and there can be no mistake since they what precedes to what follows, no trouble being required except the preliminary labour of committing the various points to memory. 11.2.21.  What I have spoken of as being done in a house, can equally well be done in connexion with public buildings, a long journey, the ramparts of a city, or even pictures. Or we may even imagine such places to ourselves. We require, therefore, places, real or imaginary, and images or symbols, which we must, of course, invent for ourselves. By images I mean the words by which we distinguish the things which we have to learn by heart: in fact, as Cicero says, we use "places like wax tablets and symbols in lieu of letters.
7. Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 11.2.21 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 11.2.21.  What I have spoken of as being done in a house, can equally well be done in connexion with public buildings, a long journey, the ramparts of a city, or even pictures. Or we may even imagine such places to ourselves. We require, therefore, places, real or imaginary, and images or symbols, which we must, of course, invent for ourselves. By images I mean the words by which we distinguish the things which we have to learn by heart: in fact, as Cicero says, we use "places like wax tablets and symbols in lieu of letters.
8. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 1.1.8

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
bergmann,b.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
bounia,a.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
camillus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
carey,s.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
coriolanus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
gens,julia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
hannibal	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
heroön	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
hölscher,t.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
identify,identifying	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
isager,j.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
martial	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
miles,m.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
monuments	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
murphy,t.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
ornamenta,östenberg,i.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
painting,tarentine	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
painting	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
palestrina	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
petronius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
philotimia / φιλοτιμία\u200e	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
pietas'	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
pliny the elder	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
publicola	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
remus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rite	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
rome,casa romuli	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rome,casa romuli on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rome,city	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
rome,comitium	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rome,forum romanum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rome,palatine hill,casa romuli on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rome,pomerium	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rome,remuria	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rome,remus buried on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
rome,temple of concordia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
rome,temple of divus augustus,victoria in	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
romulus,his tomb	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
romulus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167
statue,heracles	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
tarentum	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
topography,topographical	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
tullius cicero,m.,as collector	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26
varro,m. terentius	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 67
verres,c.,cicero prosecutes	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 26