om an Italian story by Bandello (1554).

In 1562 Arthur Brooke produced the same tale in verse, called _The
Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet_. In 1567 Painter published a
prose translation of Boisteau's novel.

=Romola=, superb woman, high-spirited, pure and single of heart, the idol
and co-laborer of her scholarly father. She wrecks her life by the
marriage with the fascinating Greek, Tito Melema.--George Eliot,
_Romola_.

=Romp= (_The_), a comic opera altered from Bickerstaff's _Love in the
City_. Priscilla Tomboy is "the romp," and the plot is given under that
name.

A splendid portrait of Mrs. Jordan, in her character of "The Romp,"
hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room [_of Adolphus
Fitzclarence_].--Lord W. P. Lennox, _Celebrities, etc._, i. 11.

=Rom'uald= (_St_).[TN-135] The Catalans had a great reverence for a hermit
so called, and hearing that he was about to quit their country, called
together a parish meeting, to consult how they might best retain him
amongst them, "For," said they, "he will certainly be consecrated, and
his relics will bring a fortune to us." So they agreed to strangle him;
but their intention being told to the hermit, he secretly made his
escape.--St. Foix, _Essais Historiques sur Paris_, v. 163.

[Asterism] Southey has a ballad on the subject.

=Romulus= (_The Second and Third_), Camillus and Mar[)i]us. Also called
"The Second and Third Founders of Rome."

=Romulus and Remus=, the twin sons of Silvia, a vestal virgin, and the god
Mars. The infants were exposed in a cradle, and the floods carried the
cradle to the foot of the Palatine. Here a wolf suckled them, till one
Faustulus, the king's shepherd, took them to his wife, who brought them
up. When grown to manhood, they slew Amulius, who had caused them to be
exposed.

The Greek legend of Tyro is in many respects similar. This Tyro had an
amour with Poseidon (as Silvia had with Mars), and two sons were born in
both cases. Tyro's mother-in-law confined her in a dungeon, and exposed
the two infants (Pelias and Neleus) in a boat on the river En[=i]peus (3
_syl._). Here they were discovered and brought up by a herdsman (Romulus
and Remus were brought up by a shepherd), and when grown to manhood,
they put to death their mother-in-law, who had caused them to be exposed
(as Romulus and Remus put to death their great-uncle, Amulius).

=Ron=, the ebony spear of Prince Arthur.

The temper of