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There was a standoff and the two brothers began to quarrel as did their respective followers. Romulus began to build walls and dig trenches around his site, on the Palatine Hill. Remus was amused by this and began to mock his brother. On one, occasion Remus would jump over the walls, making fun of Romulus' work and efforts.
====How did Remus die?====There are several version versions of the Remus' death of Remus. In the popular account of Livy, he was killed by claimed that the Gods. Because killed him because he failed to observe the auguries and respect the signs from the divine, he was . The Gods struck him dead by them for his hubris.<ref>Livy, 1, 18</ref>. This Livy believed that Remus' death was also a sign according to that the Roman historian of the future divinely Gods favored status of Rome. However, this version of the myth Livy may have been an attempt sought to exonerate Romulus who with his account of the myth because Romulus was esteemed as believed to be the first ruler of Rome. There are a number of other Several versions that relate that Romulus murdered his brother. In most of the versions that have been handed down texts, including that of the Greek historian Dionysus; , Romulus kills killed his brother. The weapon used to kill Remus was with either a spade or a spear in most accounts. There is even one account from the great Christian theologian St Jerome that Remus was murdered by one of the supporters of Romulus. What is clear that Regardless of the circumstances of Remus' death, almost all of the accounts attribute the his death of Remus in one way or another to his brotherRomulus. Interestingly all the sources indicate that Romulus was at least partly responsible for the death of his twin but that it was fated by the divine <ref>Wiseman, Timothy Peter. Remus: a Roman myth. (Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 112</ref>. The day of the act of fratricide is widely considered to be the date of the foundation of Rome, the 21st of April, 753 BC.
====After the death of Remus====