his brother, nor take any part in the building of the city. Romulus
would gladly have shared his lands and his wealth, but Remus would
take nothing at his hands; if he might not be king he cared for
nothing else.
Day by day he loitered about, gloomily watching Romulus and his men as
they toiled at the walls of their city. They wrought hard and long
each day, for they wished to surround their chosen site with a rampart
before any foe came to interrupt their work.
Their first fortification was but a ditch and a mound, neither high
nor wide, but enough to serve as a defense while they built better
walls behind it at their leisure.
On the day the first wall of his new city was completed, Romulus was
filled with joy, and offered sacrifices to the gods, and gave thanks
in the presence of all his men.
But Remus thrust rudely in among the throng and laughed aloud in
scorn: "What a wall to make such a pother about!" he cried; and
running forward he leaped the ditch and the rampart, and turning
leaped back again. "See how great a defense is your fine wall," he
cried to Romulus, mocking him. "If a wolf should push against it he
would knock it down, and I myself can leap within it whenever I
choose."
And Romulus answered, pale with passion: "Go thy ways, brother, and
leave my wall alone, or I may do thee a mischief."
"Thy wall!" retorted Remus. "Scarce can I see where thy wall runs. I
thought, verily, some mole must have been rootling here upon the
hillside."
Now it has always been the custom of soldiers to build first with the
spade, and the wall that Romulus and his friends had thrown up as they
dug their ditch was higher even now than most of the walls that were
made in those days.
And Celer, the henchman of Romulus, the youth who had helped him most
in his work, was sorely angered when Remus mocked; and when once more
he leaped the wall, crying, "Even so will the enemy enter your city,"
Celer made answer fiercely: "And even thus will we meet the enemy";
and he smote Remus suddenly with the spade that was in his hand, and
Remus fell dead at his brother's feet.
And when Celer saw that he had slain the brother of the King he flung
down his spade and fled quickly, and being swift of foot he escaped to
a far-off land.
And Romulus wept sore for his brother, and they took the body of Remus
to the summit of the hill, and there they burnt it upon a great
funeral pile.
The newly built city was called Rome; and here for many years Romulus
reigned as king, terrible to his foes and just and kindly to all his
people.
And when forty years had passed away it chanced that the King called
together all his warriors to the Goat's Pool, that he might see and
speak with them. They were standing ranged in their ranks while
Romulus sat upon a high throne to muster them, when on a sudden there
came a great darkness upon the whole assembly so that no man could see
the face of him who stood next to him. Then, in the midst of the
darkness, came a mighty storm of thunder and lightning. When the storm
passed and the sun came out again all gazed in wonder and terror at
the throne of Romulus, for the King was gone--he had vanished from
their sight. And there were those who said that they had seen amid the
storm a chariot of fire mounting to the heavens, and that the
charioteer was none other than Mars himself come to bear away his son
Romulus to the abode of the immortal gods.
And while all men doubted and wondered and talked of these things it
fell on a day that a friend of Romulus, named Julius Proculus, had a
wondrous vision. For it seemed to him as he traveled alone among the
mountains, that the King stood before him, great and noble and clad in
shining armor.
And Julius cried out: "Ah, my lord, wherefore hast thou left thy city
in such sorrow? Hast thou indeed forsaken forever all those who love
thee?"
Then the bright vision made answer: "For a space have I dwelt with
men, and a great and glorious city have I founded. Know me
henceforward as Quirinus, one of the immortal gods. And now go back to
my people and tell them that if they will follow forever the law that
I have given them, suffering neither cowardice nor license among them,
but being brave and just and honorable, then will I, Quirinus, ever be
at hand to help them in their need, and they shall rule over all the
peoples of the world."
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious typographical errors have been repaired.
Page placement keys in illustration tags--for example, "page
108]"--have been removed.
Hyphenation inconsistencies retained.