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DE Feeding with animal milk. She-wolf, Romulus and Remus. Olympic Games. Stamp, Hungary 1960
Loba capitolina amamantando a Rómulo y Remo. Tito Livio. Juegos Olímpicos Roma, Michel B 30.
Dimensions: 95 x 66 mm
Lupam sitientem ex montibus, qui circa sunt, ad puerilem vagitum cursum flexisse; eam summissas infantibus adeo mitem praebuisse mammas. (A thirsty she-wolf from the nearby mountains strayed towards the crying children and meekly bent over them and offered them her breasts).
This is the wonderful (but incredible) description of Titus Livy (59 BC to 17 AD) in his Ab Urbe Condita (History of Rome from its foundation, 1:4).
Unbelievable, because the composition of canine milk is so different from that of female milk that the children would have died within a few days.
Titus Livy himself does not concede the veracity of what he has just recounted, for a few lines further down, he believes that the legend may be due to the profession of the shepherd's wife who took the children (a whore, a prostitute in a brothel, a "she-wolf", as the shepherds used to say).
Lupam sitientem ex montibus, qui circa sunt, ad puerilem vagitum cursum flexisse; eam summissas infantibus adeo mitem praebuisse mammas. (A thirsty she-wolf from the nearby mountains strayed towards the crying children and meekly bent over them and offered them her breasts).
This is the wonderful (but incredible) description of Titus Livy (59 BC to 17 AD) in his Ab Urbe Condita (History of Rome from its foundation, 1:4).
Unbelievable, because the composition of canine milk is so different from that of female milk that the children would have died within a few days.
Titus Livy himself does not concede the veracity of what he has just recounted, for a few lines further down, he believes that the legend may be due to the profession of the shepherd's wife who took the children (a whore, a prostitute in a brothel, a "she-wolf", as the shepherds used to say).