Amulius

[uh-myoo-lee-uhs]

noun

Roman Legend.

1. a son of Proca who revolted against his brother Numitor and seized the throne of Alba Longa.

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Numitor, the elder, being weak and spiritless, suffered Amulius to wrest the government from him, and reduce him to his father's private estates.

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Amulius had no children, or at least only one daughter: so that the race of Anchises and Aphrodite seemed on the point of expiring, when the love of a god prolonged it, in spite of the ordinances of man, and gave it a lustre worthy of its origin.

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Amulius ordered that the mother and her babes should be drowned in the river.

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And several authors of Egyptian history refer to a story perpetuated in the Egyptian legends concerning the God Osiris, who was threatened with destruction by the tyrant Amulius, to save whom his parents fled and concealed him in an arm of the River Nile, as Christ was concealed in the same country, and, for aught that appears to the contrary, in the same locality.

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Quirinus was miraculously preserved in infancy, when threatened with destruction by the tyrant ruler Amulius.

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