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[rom-yuh-luhs] | 1. | the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded. |
| 2. | a town in S Michigan. 24,857. |
| Re·mus (rē'məs) n. Roman Mythology The twin brother of Romulus. |