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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.
El mismo Tito Livio no concede veracidad a lo que acaba de contar, pues unas líneas más abajo, opina que la leyenda puede deberse al oficio de la mujer del pastor que recogió a los niños (meretriz, prostituta en un lupanar, una «loba», como decían los pastores).
Actualizado el: 26/05/2024
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.
El mismo Tito Livio no concede veracidad a lo que acaba de contar, pues unas líneas más abajo, opina que la leyenda puede deberse al oficio de la mujer del pastor que recogió a los niños (meretriz, prostituta en un lupanar, una «loba», como decían los pastores).