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  • Among the humans she's best known as a supposed mistress of Hercules and then later the wife of a shepherd to King Numitor.

    Touch of Evil 2006

  • 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

  • When they knew their real origin, the twins, called Romulus and Remus, put Amulius to death and restored the crown to their grandfather Numitor.

    Note: Romulus 2002

  • Numitor chose the kingdom; but Amulius, having the money, and being able to do more with that than Numitor, took his kingdom from him with great ease, and, fearing lest his daughter might have children, made her a

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Here again there are variations, but in general outline it runs thus: the kings of Alba reigned in lineal descent from Aeneas and the succession devolved at length upon two brothers, Numitor and Amulius.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • 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.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • But when, after the death of his grandfather Numitor in Alba, the throne devolving upon Romulus, he, to court the people, put the government into their own hands, and appointed an annual magistrate over the Albans, this taught the great men of Rome to seek after a free and anti-monarchical state, wherein all might in turn be subjects and rulers.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • At which Numitor being highly incensed, they little regarded it, but collected and took into their company a number of needy men and runaway slaves, — acts which looked like the first stages of rebellion.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Numitor, however, did not punish him at all, for he, by accident, discovered that he was his grandson.

    Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux

  • I think you will not understand me, if I do not first tell you something about Numitor and

    Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux

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