27.01.26: Level 3; Reading (review); [27](b) Romulus and Remus

The twins Romulus and Remus were exposed on the order of the king Amulius. A wolf fed them at first.

Fābula est pāstōrem Rōmulum et Remum in Palātiō spectāvisse et ad sē trānsportāvisse. Nōn ignōrāmus geminōs ibi ēducātōs esse. Lēgimus geminōs eum locum posteā rūrsus quaesīvisse ibique ā Rōmulō mūrōs oppidī novī aedificātōs viāsque strātās esse. Rēmus autem parvōs mūrōs sprēvit et trānsiluit. Rōmulus ā Remō irrīsus eum necāvit. 

[1] perfect active infinitive

Fābula est ¦ pāstōrem Rōmulum et Remum in Palātiō spectāvisse et ad sē trānsportāvisse. │ The story is ¦ that the shepherd saw Romulus and Remus on the Palatine Hill and carried them home.

Lēgimus ¦ geminōs eum locum posteā rūrsus quaesīvisse… │ We (have) read ¦ that the twins again sought out that place

[2] perfect passive infinitive

Nōn ignōrāmus ¦ geminōs ibi ēducātōs esse. │ We are not unaware ¦ that the twins were raised there.

Lēgimus ¦ … ibique ā Rōmulō mūrōs oppidī novī aedificātōs viāsque strātās esse. │ We (have) read ¦ that … the walls of a new town were built and the roads (were) paved by Romulus.

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The story goes that the shepherd saw Romulus and Remus on the Palatine Hill and carried them home. We know that the twins were raised there. We have read that the twins again sought that place, and that there the walls of a new town were built and the roads were paved by Romulus. But Remus scorned the low walls and leapt over them. Romulus, mocked by his brother, killed him.