Example sentences for: romulus

How can you use “romulus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Legend says Rome was founded by Romulus, sired with twin brother Remus by Mars of a Vestal Virgin and abandoned on the Palatine Hill to be suckled by a she-wolf.

  • The invasion of Attila’s Huns and the Goths and Vandals who came to sack, rape, murder, and pillage Rome brought an end to the Western Empire in 476 with the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustus.

  • Legend attributes it to a more or less imaginary eponymous founder Romulus , or, in a less familiar version, to a Trojan woman, Rhome (whose name is a Greek word for `strength').

  • The wolf dates from around the fifth century b.c. , but the little Romulus and Remus that she is suckling are actually Renaissance additions by Pollaiuolo.

  • The top-floor Capitoline Picture Gallery (Pinacoteca Capitolina) has important Venetian works by Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Lotto, and Veronese, as well as a fine Rubens Romulus and Remus and Caravaggio’s St. John the Baptist.


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