REMUS With his brother, Romulus, Remus was the offspring of Mars and avestal virgin. They were both abandoned at birth, but found and suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by herdsmen. Returning to the land of their birth, the twinsfounded the city of Rome, but Remus was killed by Romulus, in a quarrel. Romulusfound that his city, Rome, suffered from a lack of women, and righted this situation bycarrying off the Sabine maidens at a festival. Romulus reigned for forty years inRome, after which he vanished.