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In time she brought forth two boys, of more than human size and beauty, whom Amulius, becoming yet more alarmed, commanded a servant to take and cast away; this man some call Faustulus, others say Faustulus was the man who brought them up.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Eventually Romulus and Remus were found by Faustulus, a shepherd, who raised them to adulthood.
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Eventually Romulus and Remus were found by Faustulus, a shepherd, who raised them to adulthood.
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These two children were thrown into the Tiber by order of Amulius who usurped the crown of his brother Numitor, but they were preserved, and according to Florus the river stopped its course, and a she wolf came and fed them with her milk till they were found by Faustulus, one of the king's shepherds, who educated them as his own children.
Note: Romulus 2002
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Faustulus, hearing Remus was taken and delivered up, called on
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Latins not only called wolves lupae, but also women of loose life; and such an one was the wife of Faustulus, who nurtured these children, Acca Larentia by name.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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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 to see and handle it, for a confirmation of her hopes of her children.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Faustulus was the name of this shepherd, and he took them to his wife Laurentia, though she already had twelve others to care for.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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The grandfather of the twins fed his herds on the Aventine Hill, nearer the river Tiber, just across a little valley, and a quarrel arose between his shepherds and those of Faustulus, in the course of which
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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It was at the foot of a fig-tree that Romulus and Remus were fabled to have been found by Faustulus, and that tree was always looked upon with special veneration, though whenever the Roman walked through the woods he felt that he was surrounded by the world of gods, and that such a leafy shade was a proper place to consecrate as a temple.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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