The Polyhistor

Ashearing of sheep, with the letter changed, or from Pale, the pastoral Goddess; or (as Silenus proves) from Palante, the daughter of the Hyperborean, whom Hercules was seen to have ravished there, the name was adopted for the mountain. But although these things are in agreement, it is clear that the glory of the Roman name is owed to that prosperous augury, especially since the calculation of years makes the hinge for the truth. For, as Varro, a most diligent author, affirms, Romulus founded Roma, born of Mars and Rhea Sylvia, or as some say, Mars and Ilia. And it was first called Roma Quadrata Square Rome because it was positioned in equilibrium. It begins from the forest which is in the area of Apollo, and has its limit at the brow of the steps of Cacus. There was the hut of Faustulus. There Romulus lived, who, having taken the auspices, laid the foundations of the walls at eighteen years of age, on the eleventh day before the Kalends of May, in the hour after the second and before the third: B as Lucius Taruntius, the most noble of mathematicians, reported, with Jupiter in Pisces, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Mercury in Scorpio, the Sun in Taurus, and the Moon in Libra established. And it was observed thereafter that no victim should fall at the Parilia festival for the founding of Rome, so that that day might be pure from blood. They wish its meaning to be drawn from the birth of Ilia. The same Romulus reigned for thirty-seven years. He held his first triumph over the Caeninenses and stripped the spoils from their king Acron, which he was the first to hang to Jupiter Feretrius and called them opima supreme spoils. He triumphed again over the Antemnates, and a third time over the Veientes. He ceased to appear at the Caprae marsh on the Nones of July. We will say where the other kings lived. Tatius [lived] in the citadel, where now the temple of Iuno Moneta is, who, in the fifth year after he had entered the city, was killed by the Laurentines and departed the life in the twenty-seventh Olympiad. Numa [lived] on the Quirinal hill, then because of the temple of Vesta in the palace, which even now is so called...