Each party called itself victorious; the one having the first omen, the other that which was most complete.

This produced a contest which ended in a battle, wherein Re'mus was slain.

It is even said, that he was killed by his brother, who, being provoked at his leaping contemptuously over the city wall, struck him dead upon the spot.
15.

Rom'ulus being now sole commander and eighteen years of age, began the foundation of a city that was one day to give laws to the world.
It was called Rome, after the name of the founder, and built upon the Palatine hill, on which he had taken his successful omen, A.M.

3252; ANTE c.752.The city was at first nearly square, containing about a thousand houses.