Quotes About Capitoline

Piazza del Campidoglio

Romulus and Remus There is a legend that the city of Rome was founded by twins called Romulus and Remus. They were abandoned when babies, and a she-wolf looked after and fed them. When they grew up, they founded the city at the spot where they themselves were discovered. This statue of the wolf and her babies can be seen on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. A caged female wolf also is kept here, in memory of the legend.

NOMISMA, MEANING 'COIN', was used by both Greeks and Romans. Our own word 'money' derives, via the French monnaie, from the Latin moneta, meaning the mint, where coins are struck. (In early Rome the mint was situated on the Capitoline Hill in the temple of Juno Moneta.)