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ETYMOLOGT OF SOME 
SO that we may infer from the forms of the words that 
Remus, originally Komus, must have been the name of the 
elder brother, and Eomulus, that is, the little Eomus, that of 
the younger brother. With reference to the meaning which I 
have attached to Romus, let us compare the following allied 
words: Sans, ^-pheru and 1$;^^ -pherava, 'a jackal;' Lat. 
vulpes, 'a fox,' Sans. |3J-vrka, Gr. \vko<;, Lat. lupus 'a wolf,* 
and the corresponding A.S. wulf, Slav, vluka and Lith. 
vilkas ; Grr. aXcoTri]^, Eng. fox, A.S. fuchs. Sans. 3r5^-iilupl, 
* a water fox; ' Sans. 3TW-Ti?abhra 'a goat,' Gr. eXa0o9, ' a 
deer,' and e/aic^o?, 'kid;' Sans, ^-ibha, Gr. i\e(f)d<; (stem, 
iXe^avT) and Lat. elephas and elephantus, and other words 
which I have mentioned in the Yrsa group and to which 
I have already referred above. We can clearly see that the 
first letter ^-v of f^f-vrsa is changed into a, e, i, o, and u, the 
second letter ^-r, into 1 in some words, and the third letter q'-s 
is represented by k, p, ph, and bh. By changing again the 
letter p, ph, or bh into m and retaining only the second 
consonant r, and eliding the first letter v, we can derive 
such a form as rdma or r6ma with one of the above meanings 
or some allied meaning. In Sanskrit there is already a 
word as ?;'j';i-rama, which is applied to a quadruped like a 
deer, and which, I am quite certain, is allied to the above 
words and traceable to the representative word f^-vrsa. 
or 1^-vrka Perhaps even the EngKsh word ' ram ' and the 
A.S. ram and rom, Eng. lamb and the A.S. and Ice. lamb, 
Dan. lam, all traced to lamba, (the root of which is not 
settled according to Mr. Skeat), may be traced to the same 
source. As for Remus, the name of the brother of Romulus, 
it is believed by philologists to be a corruption of Romus, as 
I have already remarked. I should therefore think that the 
word Romus originally signified a wolf and was the name 
of the founder of the capital of the Roman empire ; and as 
I have already observed -ft-ith regard to Europa, it was the 
