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subject	book bibliographic info
remus	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 41 Bay (2022), Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus, 190 Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 57 Boustan Janssen and Roetzel (2010), Violence, Scripture, and Textual Practices in Early Judaism and Christianity, 231 Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 6, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 123, 125, 150, 151, 153 Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 72, 84, 117, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 129, 130, 136, 141, 193, 199 Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 7, 46, 73 Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 120 Kaster(2005), Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome, 169 Levine Allison and Crossan (2006), The Historical Jesus in Context, 84 Penniman (2017), Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity, 224 Putnam et al. (2023), The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae, 55, 97 Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 108 Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77, 120, 165, 167, 168, 215 Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 124, 217, 218, 219 Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 229, 286, 289, 290, 291 Van Nuffelen (2012), Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, 54, 88, 118 Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 41 Wynne (2019), Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage, 255 Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 22, 23
remus, and ancient historiography	Van Nuffelen (2012), Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, 12, 13, 31, 32, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 109
remus, and the ficus ruminalis	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 289
remus, buried on, rome	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167, 168
remus, dramatis personae	Culík-Baird (2022), Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, 55, 217
remus, rhetoric, school of	Van Nuffelen (2012), Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, 9, 10, 13, 20, 42, 43, 44, 64, 77
remus, romulus and	Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 55 Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 225 Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 165 O'Daly (2020), Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide (2nd edn), 48, 49, 191, 215, 216 Oksanish (2019), Benedikt Eckhardt, and Meret Strothmann, Law in the Roman Provinces, 159, 160, 161
remus, romulus, and	Clark (2007), Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome, 51

List of validated texts:

12 validated results for "remus"

1. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.85.6, 1.87.3 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus • Rome, Remus buried on

Found in books: Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 120; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167

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1.85.6 \xa0They 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 \xa0Remus 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. <'' None

2. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.814 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus

Found in books: Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 125; Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 141

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14.814 “unus erit, quem tu tolles in caerula caeli”'' None

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14.814 and were delighted when they saw the ship'' None

3. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus • Romulus and Remus

Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 225; Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 101; Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 123; Putnam et al. (2023), The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae, 55; Van Nuffelen (2012), Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, 54

4. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus

Found in books: Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 103, 125, 150; Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 72, 123, 125, 199

5. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus • Romulus and Remus

Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 225; Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 103; Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 22, 23

6. Plutarch, Romulus, 9.4-9.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus • Rome, Remus buried on

Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 41; Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 120; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 167; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 41

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9.4 Ὁρμήσασι δὲ πρὸς τὸν συνοικισμὸν αὐτοῖς εὐθὺς ἦν διαφορὰ περὶ τοῦ τόπου. Ῥωμύλος μὲν οὖν τὴν καλουμένην Ῥώμην κουαδράταν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ τετράγωνον, ἔκτισε, καὶ ἐκεῖνον ἐβούλετο πολίζειν τὸν τόπον, Ῥέμος δὲ χωρίον τι τοῦ Ἀβεντίνου καρτερόν, ὃ διʼ ἐκεῖνον μὲν ὠνομάσθη Ῥεμωρία, νῦν δὲ Ῥιγνάριον καλεῖται. ^9.5 συνθεμένων δὲ τὴν ἔριν ὄρνισιν αἰσίοις βραβεῦσαι, καὶ καθεζομένων χωρίς, ἕξ φασι τῷ Ῥέμῳ, διπλασίους δὲ τῷ Ῥωμύλῳ προφανῆναι γῦπας· οἱ δὲ τὸν μὲν Ῥέμον ἀληθῶς ἰδεῖν, ψεύσασθαι δὲ τὸν Ῥωμύλον, ἐλθόντος δὲ τοῦ Ῥέμου, τότε τοὺς δώδεκα τῷ Ῥωμύλῳ φανῆναι· διὸ καὶ νῦν μάλιστα χρῆσθαι γυψὶ Ῥωμαίους οἰωνιζομένους. Ἡρόδωρος δʼ ὁ Ποντικὸς ἱστορεῖ καὶ τὸν Ἡρακλέα χαίρειν γυπὸς ἐπὶ πράξει φανέντος. ^9.6 ἔστι μὲν γὰρ ἀβλαβέστατον ζῴων ἁπάντων, μηδὲν ὧν σπείρουσιν ἢ φυτεύουσιν ἢ νέμουσιν ἄνθρωποι σινόμενον, τρέφεται δʼ ἀπὸ νεκρῶν σωμάτων, ἀποκτίννυσι δʼ οὐδὲν οὐδὲ λυμαίνεται ψυχὴν ἔχον, πτηνοῖς δὲ διὰ συγγένειαν οὐδὲ νεκροῖς πρόσεισιν. ἀετοὶ δὲ καὶ γλαῦκες καὶ ἱέρακες ζῶντα κόπτουσι τὰ ὁμόφυλα καὶ φονεύουσι· καίτοι κατʼ Αἰσχύλονὄρνιθος ὄρνις πῶς ἂν ἁγνεύοι φαγών;'' None

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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. ^9.5 Agreeing to settle their quarrel by the flight of birds of omen, Cf. Livy, i. 7, 1. and taking their seats on the ground apart from one another, six vultures, they say, were seen by Remus, and twice that number by Romulus. Some, however, say that whereas Remus truly saw his six, Romulus lied about his twelve, but that when Remus came to him, then he did see the twelve. Hence it is that at the present time also the Romans chiefly regard vultures when they take auguries from the flight of birds. Herodorus Ponticus relates that Hercules also was glad to see a vulture present itself when he was upon an exploit. ^9.6 For it is the least harmful of all creatures, injures no grain, fruit-tree, or cattle, and lives on carrion. But it does not kill or maltreat anything that has life, and as for birds, it will not touch them even when they are dead, since they are of its own species. But eagles, owls, and hawks smite their own kind when alive, and kill them. And yet, in the words of Aeschylus:— Suppliants, 226 (Dindorf). How shall a bird that preys on fellow bird be clean?'' None

7. Tacitus, Annals, 12.64.1, 13.58 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus • Romulus and Remus

Found in books: Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 165; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 229, 290, 291

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13.58 Eodem anno Ruminalem arborem in comitio, quae octingentos et triginta ante annos Remi Romulique infantiam texerat, mortuis ramalibus et arescente trunco deminutam prodigii loco habitum est, donec in novos fetus revivesceret.' ' None

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12.64.1 \xa0In the consulate of Marcus Asinius and Manius Acilius, it was made apparent by a sequence of prodigies that a change of conditions for the worse was foreshadowed. Fire from heaven played round the standards and tents of the soldiers; a\xa0swarm of bees settled on the pediment of the Capitol; it was stated that hermaphrodites had been born, and that a pig had been produced with the talons of a hawk. It was counted among the portents that each of the magistracies found its numbers diminished, since a quaestor, an aedile, and a tribune, together with a praetor and a consul, had died within a\xa0few months. But especial terror was felt by Agrippina. Disquieted by a remark let fall by Claudius in his cups, that it was his destiny first to suffer and finally to punish the infamy of his wives, she determined to act â\x80\x94 and speedily. First, however, she destroyed Domitia Lepida on a feminine quarrel. For, as the daughter of the younger Antonia, the grand-niece of Augustus, the first cousin once removed of Agrippina, and also the sister of her former husband Gnaeus Domitius, Lepida regarded her family distinctions as equal to those of the princess. In looks, age, and fortune there was little between the pair; and since each was as unchaste, as disreputable, and as violent as the other, their competition in the vices was not less keen than in such advantages as they had received from the kindness of fortune. But the fiercest struggle was on the question whether the domit influence with Nero was to be his aunt or his mother: for Lepida was endeavouring to captivate his youthful mind by a smooth tongue and an open hand, while on the other side Agrippina stood grim and menacing, capable of presenting her son with an empire but not of tolerating him as emperor. ^13.58 \xa0In the same year, the tree in the Comitium, known as the Ruminalis, which eight hundred and thirty years earlier had sheltered the infancy of Remus and Romulus, through the death of its boughs and the withering of its stem, reached a stage of decrepitude which was regarded as a portent, until it renewed its verdure in fresh shoots.'' None

8. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus

Found in books: Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77, 165, 215; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 291

9. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus

Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 41; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 41

10. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Remus, rhetoric, school of • Romulus (and Remus)

Found in books: Dijkstra (2020), The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE): The Anchors of the Fisherman, 182, 184; Van Nuffelen (2012), Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, 42, 43

11. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.292-1.293, 6.808, 6.824, 6.826-6.835, 6.845-6.846, 8.676
Tagged with subjects: • Remus

Found in books: Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 103, 104, 153; Putnam et al. (2023), The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae, 97; Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 108; Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 124; Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 22, 23

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1.292 cana Fides, et Vesta, Remo cum fratre Quirinus, ^1.293 iura dabunt; dirae ferro et compagibus artis ^6.824 Quin Decios Drusosque procul saevumque securi ^6.826 Illae autem, paribus quas fulgere cernis in armis, ^6.827 concordes animae nunc et dum nocte premuntur, ^6.828 heu quantum inter se bellum, si lumina vitae ^6.829 attigerint, quantas acies stragemque ciebunt! ^6.830 Aggeribus socer Alpinis atque arce Monoeci ^6.831 descendens, gener adversis instructus Eois. ^6.832 Ne, pueri, ne tanta animis adsuescite bella, ^6.833 neu patriae validas in viscera vertite vires; ^6.834 tuque prior, tu parce, genus qui ducis Olympo, ^6.835 proice tela manu, sanguis meus!— ^6.845 quo fessum rapitis, Fabii? Tu Maxumus ille es, ^6.846 unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem. ^8.676 cernere erat, totumque instructo Marte videres' ' None

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1.292 'twixt hopes and fears divided; for who knows " '^1.293 whether the lost ones live, or strive with death, ^6.824 of groves where all is joy,—a blest abode! ^6.826 On that bright land, which sees the cloudless beam ^6.827 of suns and planets to our earth unknown. ^6.828 On smooth green lawns, contending limb with limb, ^6.829 Immortal athletes play, and wrestle long ' "^6.830 'gainst mate or rival on the tawny sand; " '^6.831 With sounding footsteps and ecstatic song, ^6.832 Some thread the dance divine: among them moves ^6.833 The bard of Thrace, in flowing vesture clad, ^6.834 Discoursing seven-noted melody, ^6.835 Who sweeps the numbered strings with changeful hand, ^6.845 To chariots, arms, or glossy-coated steeds, ^6.846 The self-same joy, though in their graves, they feel. ' "^8.676 the sacred emblems of Etruria's king, " " None

12. Vergil, Georgics, 2.533
Tagged with subjects: • Remus • Romulus and Remus

Found in books: Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 103; Gale (2000), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, 42, 107, 247

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2.533 hanc Remus et frater, sic fortis Etruria crevit'' None

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2.533 Their stems wax lusty, and have found their strength,'' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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