Faustulus

• the shepherd who brought up Romulus and Remus, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9; Liv. 1, 4, 7; Ov. F. 3, 56; 4, 854 al.—Facete, an epithet of Atticus, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 1.

the royal shepherd of Amulius and husband of Acca Laurentia. He found Romulus and Remus as they were nursed by the she-wolf, and carried the twins to his wife to be brought up. (Liv. 1.5.) He was believed to have been killed, like Remus, by near relatives, while He was endeavouring to settle a dispute between them, and to have been buried in the forum near the rostra, were a stone figure of a lion marked his tomb. Others, however, believed that Romulus was buried there. (Festus, s. v. Niger Lapis; Dionys. A. R. 1.87; Hartung, Die Relig. d. Röm. vol. ii. p. 190.) [L.S]

The name of the shepherd who, in the old Roman legend, found Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf, and who took both the children to his home and brought them up. See Romulus.