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AENEAS

Aeneas was a Trojan hero. According to Homer, he was, next to Hector, the bravest of the warriors of Troy. When that town was taken and set on fire, Aeneas, according to the narrative of Virgil, with his father, son, and wife Creusa, fled, but the latter was lost in the confusion of the flight. Having collected a fleet he sailed for Italy, but after numerous adventures he was driven by a tempest on the coast of Africa, where Queen Dido of Carthage received him kindly, and would have married him. Jupiter, however, sent Mercury to Aeneas, and commanded him to sail for Italy. Whilst the deserted Dido ended her life on the funeral pile Aeneas set sail with his companions, and after further adventures by land and sea reached the country of King Latinus, in Italy. The king's daughter Lavinia was destined by an oracle to a stranger, this stranger being Aeneas, but was promised by her mother to Turnus, king of the Rutuli. This occasioned a war, after the termination of which, Turnus having fallen by his hand, Aeneas married Lavinia. His son by Lavinia, Aeneas Sylvius, was the ancestor of the kings of Alba Longa, and of Romulus and Remus, the founders of the city of Rome.
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REMUS

In Roman mythology, Remus was the twin brother of Romulus, at whose hand he died.
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RHEA SYLVIA

In Roman mythology, Rhea Sylvia was the daughter of Numitor, a descendant of AEneas, and by Mars the mother of Romulus and Remus. Being a vestal virgin she was punished for having broken her vows by being cast into the river Anio with her children; but they were all saved.
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ROMULUS

In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother Remus were sons of Mars and Rhea Sylvia. The brothers and their mother were cast into the river Anio, the mother was turned into a goddess and the two brothers were washed ashore and suckled by a she-wolf. After they had founded Rome,
Romulus killed his brother Remus and made the capital an asylum for homicides and fugitive slaves. Women being few in the city Romulus held sacred games, inviting to them the Latins and the Sabines. In the middle of the games Roman youths seized the maidens from among the guests and made off with them. The result was a war, ended through the mediation of the Sabine women. The Romans and Sabines subsequently united into one. Romulus reigned jointly with the Sabine king Titus Tatius, until Tatius died and later
Romulus was carried off into heaven in a fiery chariot by his father, Mars.
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REMUS

The Remus was a Swedish Romulus Class torpedo boat of 638 tons displacement launched in 1934. The Remus was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots. She carried a complement of 94 and was armed with three 3.9 inch guns; six 37 mm anti-aircraft guns; two 13 mm anti-aircraft guns; two depth charge throwers and four 18 inch torpedo tubes arranged as two singles and one pair.
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