It is altogether a mistake to suppose that Remus took his stand upon
the Aventine and Romulus upon the Palatine; if so, they would both
have commanded nearly the same horizon, and messengers need not have
been sent from one to the other to tell the number of birds seen.
Romulus stood on the Aventine, and Remus on the hill before us, the
Remuria.
"Remus pitched upon the ground now called from him Remuria. This place
is very proper for a city, being a hill not far from the Tiber,
distant from Rome about thirty stadia" (Dionysius, i. 85).
"Romulus buried Remus at Remuria, since, when alive, he had been fond
of building there" (_Ibid._, i. 87).
This hill is called to the present day _La Remuria_.
_The road straight on past S. Paolo leads to the_