From The Milk Of The She-Wolf by Ciambella
Once upon a time by the Tevere river lived an old shepherd named Faustolo and his wife Larenzia. One evening in the wood, Faustolo saw a she-wolf nursing two small human babies from her breast milk. Faustolo took the children from the wolf, brought them into his home and with his wife, they raised the children as their own, named them Romolo and Remo.
When the boys grew into respectable but adventurous young men, Faustolo gave them the permission to leave home to expand their horizon. The young men wanted to find a new land to build a city of their own, and in the name of fairness, they agreed to observe the flights of birds, whoever saw the greater number of birds would have the right to name the new city.
In the year 753 BC when they came upon a parcel of land (which is now the Palatino Hill), Romolo was the one who won the game. He built a wall around the land and named it Roma.
Romolo established a rule that nobody under any circumstances can pass the burrow without his permission. Remo didn?t think very highly of the rule, so he jumped over it to mock his brother?s authority. This angered Romolo so he hurled a spade at Remo and killed him in the process. Afterward, Romolo alone governed the city successfully until the day he vanished in a thunderstorm, believed to be taken by Mars (Marte), the God of War and also his real father.
Since then, the image of the she-wolf nursing the twins can be seen in scupltures everywhere in Rome as well as in other nearby cities.