De même, quand un sanglier ou un lion, fier de sa vigueur, se retourne contre les chiens et les chasseurs, ceux-ci, se serrant, s'arrêtent en face et lui dardent un grand nombre de traits; mais son coeur orgueilleux ne tremble ni ne s'épouvante, et son audace cause sa perte.

Livy was one of those Roman sceptics who tried to rationalise this particularly implausible aspect of the tale. The Latin word for ‘wolf’ (lupa) was also used as a colloquial term for ‘prostitute’ (lupanare was one standard term for ‘brothel’). Could it be that a local whore rather than a local wild beast had found and tended the twins?

He may be described, briefly, as a combination of Einstein and Mrs. Eddy. He founded a religion, of which the main tenets were the transmigration of soulsIII and the sinfulness of eating beans. His religion was embodied in a religious order, which, here and there, acquired control of the State and established a rule of the saints. But the unregener