XXII. [1] Therefore, with the events and sacred business (of which we spoke above) done in that place, which is now called Lupercal⁴⁰ they ran about in great numbers without care [dressed?] in skins of sacrificed beasts beating themselves. And so there was a solemn sacrifice to them after that, separately Remus [and] Romulus sanctified and named them Fabii [and] Quintilii [respectively]; both of whose name remains in the rites even now.

[2] But in the second Pontifical book it is said that some [men] were sent by Amulius, who should grab the shepherd Remus; because they did not dare to take him with force, they laid in ambush to fall on him when the time was better for them. When Romulus went away they pretended to play a kind of game, to see which one of them, with his hands bound behind his back, could carry the stone that was used to divide the wool, ⁴¹ clenched between his teeth.

[3] Remus, confident of his force, promised he would carry it to the Aventine hill; the next moment he was bound with stretched hands, and dragged to Alba.

When Romulus heard this, he gathered the a gang of sheperds and divided them in groups of a hundred men; he gave them staffs with bundles of foeni⁴² of various size attached to the tip, so that by that sign they could more easily see who was their leader and follow him. Thus they were formed as the later army, who had the same signs, called manipulares.

[4] And so having overthrown⁴³ Amulius and freed from prison his brother, he restored the kingdom to his grandfather.