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The twins of the semi-legendary story of the foundation of Rome were Romulus and Remus. Romulus became the founder of Rome and killed Remus. The foundation of Rome did not involve the building of a city. It involved the unification of existing settlements of the hills which were to become the seven hills of Rome.

Romulus and Remus were twin brothers. They had an argument over whether to found the Rome on the Palatine Hill or the Aventine Hill, the former favouring the Palatine and the latter favouring the Aventine. They decided to settle the dispute through augury (the divination of the omens of the gods). Looking at the flight of birds was one of the forms of augury. Romulus won the contest because more birds crossed his hill. He then build a sacred wall around the Palatine Hill. Remus spitefully leaped over the wall. In one version Romulus killed Remus for having desecrated the wall, in another one Remus is simply given as dead, in others he was given as killed by lieutenants of Romulus.

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