§1.79.9ὡς δὲ ἀπέστη τὸ θηρίον αἴρουσιν οἱ νομεῖς τὰ βρέφη σπουδὴν ποιούμενοι τρέφειν ὡς θεῶν αὐτὰ σώζεσθαι βουλομένων.
When the beast withdrew, the shepherds lifted up the infants, making haste to rear them, in the belief that the gods wished them to be saved.
ἦν δέ τις ἐν αὐτοῖς συοφορβίων βασιλικῶν ἐπιμελούμενος ἐπιεικὴς ἀνὴρ Φαιστύλος ὄνομα, ὃς ἐν τῇ πόλει κατὰ δή τι ἀναγκαῖον ἐγεγόνει καθʼ ὃν χρόνον ἡ φθορὰ τῆς Ἰλίας καὶ ὁ τόκος ἠλέγχετο, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα κομιζομένων ἐπὶ τὸν ποταμὸν τῶν βρεφῶν τοῖς φέρουσιν αὐτὰ κατὰ θείαν τύχην ἅμα διεληλύθει τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν εἰς τὸ Παλλάντιον ἰών·
There was among them a respectable man named Phaestylus, who had charge of the royal swineherds; he had been in the city for some necessary business at the very time when the violation of Ilia and her delivery were being discovered, and afterwards, while the infants were being carried to the river, by a divine fortune he had walked along the same road at the same time, going to the Palatine.
ὃς ἥκιστα τοῖς ἄλλοις καταφανὴς γενόμενος ὡς ἐπίσταταί τι τοῦ πράγματος ἀξιώσας αὑτῷ συγχωρηθῆναι τὰ βρέφη λαμβάνει τε αὐτὰ παρὰ τοῦ κοινοῦ καὶ φέρων ὡς τὴν γυναῖκα ἔρχεται.
He, making himself as little conspicuous as possible to the others as if he knew something of the affair, asked that the infants be granted to him, and received them from the common stock and went, carrying them to his wife.
§1.79.10τετοκυῖαν δὲ καταλαβὼν καὶ ἀχθομένην ὅτι νεκρὸν αὐτῇ τὸ βρέφος ἦν παραμυθεῖταί τε καὶ δίδωσιν ὑποβαλέσθαι τὰ παιδία πᾶσαν ἐξ ἀρχῆς διηγησάμενος τὴν κατασχοῦσαν αὐτὰ τύχην.
Finding that she had just given birth and was grieving because her infant had been born dead, he comforted her and gave her the children to substitute as her own, having related to her from the beginning the whole fortune that had befallen them.
αὐξομένοις δὲ αὐτοῖς ὄνομα τίθεται τῷ μὲν Ῥωμύλον, τῷ δὲ Ῥῶμον.
As they grew up, he gave them names, Romulus to the one, and Romus to the other.
οἱ δὲ ἀνδρωθέντες γίνονται κατά τε ἀξίωσιν μορφῆς καὶ φρονήματος ὄγκον οὐ συοφορβοῖς καὶ βουκόλοις ἐοικότες, ἀλλʼ οἵους ἄν τις ἀξιώσειε τοὺς ἐκ βασιλείου τε φύντας γένους καὶ ἀπὸ δαιμόνων σπορᾶς γενέσθαι νομιζομένους, ὡς ἐν τοῖς πατρίοις ὕμνοις ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἔτι καὶ νῦν ᾅδεται.
When they reached manhood, they became, both in the dignity of their appearance and the elevation of their minds, not like swineherds and herdsmen, but such as one would think those born of royal race and believed to be from the seed of gods, as is still sung by the Romans in their traditional hymns.
§1.79.11βίος δʼ αὐτοῖς ἦν βουκολικὸς καὶ δίαιτα αὐτουργὸς ἐν ὄρεσι τὰ πολλὰ πηξαμένοις διὰ ξύλων καὶ καλάμων σκηνὰς αὐτορόφους· ὧν ἔτι καὶ εἰς ἐμὲ ἦν τις τοῦ Παλλαντίου ἐπὶ τῆς πρὸς τὸν ἱππόδρομον στρεφούσης λαγόνος Ῥωμύλου λεγομένη, ἣν φυλάττουσιν ἱερὰν οἷς τούτων ἐπιμελὲς οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τὸ σεμνότερον ἐξάγοντες, εἰ δέ τι πονήσειεν ὑπὸ χειμῶνος ἢ χρόνου τὸ λεῖπον ἐξακούμενοι καὶ τῷ πρόσθεν ἐξομοιοῦντες εἰς δύναμιν.
Their life was pastoral and their livelihood self-sufficient, building for themselves on the mountains for the most part huts of wood and reeds, roofed by themselves; of which even down to my time there remained one on the side of the Palatine turning towards the hippodrome, called the hut of Romulus, which those who have charge of these matters keep sacred, without introducing any adornment for greater solemnity, but if any part is damaged by storm or time, they repair the lack and make it as like the former as possible.
§1.79.12ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀμφὶ τὰ ὀκτωκαίδεκα ἔτη γεγονότες ἦσαν ἀμφίλογόν τι περὶ τῆς νομῆς αὐτοῖς γίνεται πρὸς τοὺς Νεμέτορος βουκόλους, οἳ περὶ τὸ Αὐεντῖνον ὄρος ἀντικρὺ τοῦ Παλλαντίου κείμενον εἶχον τὰς βουστάσεις.
When they were about eighteen years old, a dispute arose between them and the herdsmen of Numitor concerning the pasture; the latter had their cattle pens around the Aventine hill, which lies opposite the Palatine.
ᾐτιῶντο δὲ ἀλλήλους ἑκάτεροι θαμινὰ ἢ τὴν μὴ προσήκουσαν ὀργάδα κατανέμειν ἢ τὴν κοινὴν μόνους διακρατεῖν ἢ ὅ τι δήποτε τύχοι.
Both sides frequently accused each other, either of grazing on land that did not belong to them, or of monopolizing the common land, or whatever else it might be.
ἐκ δὲ τῆς ἁψιμαχίας ταύτης ἐγένοντο πληγαί ποτε διὰ χειρῶν, εἶτα διʼ ὅπλων.
From this skirmishing, blows with hands eventually occurred, and then with weapons.
§1.79.13τραύματα δὲ πολλὰ πρὸς τῶν μειρακίων λαβόντες οἱ τοῦ Νεμέτορος καί τινας καὶ ἀπολέσαντες τῶν σφετέρων καὶ τῶν χωρίων ἤδη κατὰ κράτος ἐξειργόμενοι παρεσκευάζοντο δόλον τινὰ ἐπʼ αὐτούς.
The men of Numitor, having received many wounds from the young men and having lost some of their own, and being already driven from the lands by force, prepared a plot against them.
προλοχίσαντες δὴ τῆς φάραγγος τὸ ἀφανὲς καὶ συνθέμενοι τοῖς λοχῶσι τὰ μειράκια τὸν τῆς ἐπιθέσεως καιρὸν οἱ λοιποὶ κατὰ πλῆθος ἐπὶ τὰ μανδρεύματα αὐτῶν νύκτωρ ἐπέβαλον.
Having placed an ambush in the unseen part of the ravine, and having agreed with those in ambush on the time of the attack upon the young men, the rest fell in great numbers upon their folds by night.
Ῥωμύλος μὲν οὖν τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον ἐτύγχανεν ἅμα τοῖς ἐπιφανεστάτοις τῶν κωμητῶν πεπορευμένος εἴς τι χωρίον Καίνιναν ὀνομαζόμενον ἱερὰ ποιήσων ὑπὲρ τοῦ κοινοῦ πάτρια· §1.79.14Ῥῶμος δὲ τὴν ἔφοδον αὐτῶν αἰσθόμενος ἐξεβοήθει λαβὼν τὰ ὅπλα διαταχέων ὀλίγους τῶν ἐκ τῆς κώμης φθάσαντας καθʼ ἓν γενέσθαι παραλαβών.
Romulus, at this time, happened to have gone with the most prominent of the villagers to a place called Caenina, to perform traditional sacrifices on behalf of the community; but Romus, perceiving their attack, went out to help, taking up arms in haste and taking along a few of those from the village who had managed to assemble.
κἀκεῖνοι οὐ δέχονται αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ φεύγουσιν ὑπαγόμενοι ἔνθα ἔμελλον ἐν καλῷ ὑποστρέψαντες ἐπιθήσεσθαι·
The enemy did not receive him but fled, drawing him to where they were likely to turn and attack him to advantage.
ὁ δὲ Ῥῶμος κατʼ ἄγνοιαν τοῦ μηχανήματος ἄχρι πολλοῦ διώκων αὐτοὺς παραλλάττει τὸ λελοχισμένον χωρίον, κἀν τούτῳ ὅ τε λόχος ἀνίσταται καὶ οἱ φεύγοντες ὑποστρέφουσι.
Romus, in ignorance of the stratagem, pursuing them for a long distance, passed the place of the ambush; and at this moment, both the ambush rose up and the fugitives turned back.
κυκλωσάμενοι δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ πολλοῖς ἀράττοντες λίθοις λαμβάνουσιν ὑποχειρίους.
Having surrounded them and striking them with many stones, they took them captive.
ταύτην γὰρ εἶχον ἐκ τῶν δεσποτῶν τὴν παρακέλευσιν, ζῶντας αὐτοῖς τοὺς νεανίσκους κομίσαι.
For they had this command from their masters, to bring the young men to them alive.
οὕτω μὲν δὴ χειρωθεὶς ὁ Ῥῶμος ἀπήγετο.
Thus, having been overpowered, Romus was led away.