On the City of God Against the Pagans
Founder of Rome, whose fratricide is cited as an example of the earthly city's origins.
Book I
Founder of Rome who opened a sanctuary for criminals, foreshadowing the Christian asylum that spared pagans.
Of God's Clemency in Moderating the Ruin of the City
Founder of Rome who, with Remus, opened a sanctuary for asylum to increase the city's population.
XIV
Mentioned as a demigod alongside Hercules, with whom Plato is compared by Labeo.
Chapter XV: That it was vanity, not reason, which created some of the Roman gods.
Deified founder of Rome, given a flamen and preferred over other gods.
XVI
First king of Rome, succeeded by Numa Pompilius.
Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome’s palmiest days.
Founder of Rome, perpetrator of the rape of the Sabine women, later deified.
Chapter XX: Of the kind of happiness and life truly delighted in by those who inveigh against the Christian religion
Mentioned as a figure the ancient Romans honored, contrasted with Sardanapalus
Book III: External Calamities and the Failure of the Pagan Gods
Founder of Rome, whose fratricide and disputed apotheosis are discussed.
III
Founder of Rome, claimed son of Mars, used to illustrate double standards in divine parentage.
Chapter V: The Inconsistency of the Gods' Anger at Adultery
Founder of Rome, whose mother's adultery with Mars is discussed.
VI
Founder of Rome, accused of fratricide against his brother; Augustine questions why the gods punished Troy for adultery but rewarded Rome despite this crime.
IX
Predecessor of Numa Pompilius, mentioned in contrast to Numa's peaceful reign.
Chapter X: The Price of Empire and the Illusion of Peace
Roman king whose peaceful reign is contrasted with the wars of expansion.
Of the statue of Apollo at Cumae, whose tears are supposed to have portended disaster to the Greeks, whom the god was unable to succour.
Numa Pompilius succeeded Romulus and added new gods to Rome.
XII
Mentioned in the context of the wicked contentiousness that led to his brother's death.
XII
Referenced as the king who introduced a ritual but whose additions were insufficient for Rome.
XIII
Led the Romans in the war for wives, prayed to Jupiter, and later ruled alone after Titus Tatius was slain.
XIV
Founder of Rome; his fratricide is contrasted with Alba's fate.
XV
Founder of Rome, whose apotheosis is questioned; possibly murdered by the senate.
Book IV: The One True God, Not the Pagan Gods, Is the Author of Earthly Kingdoms
Referenced as an early Roman king under whom the gods were worshipped; his worshippers are long dead.
Of the runaway gladiators whose power became like that of royal dignity.
Mentioned as the founder of Rome who gathered men from a life of villainy into his city.
Concerning Felicity, whom the Romans, who venerate many gods, for a long time did not worship with divine honour, though she alone would have sufficed instead of all.
Founder of Rome who neglected to build a temple to Felicity despite his ambition.
Chapter XVII: On the Profit of Roman Wars and the True Glory of the Heavenly City
Founder of Rome, whose asylum for criminals prefigures the remission of sins in the heavenly city.
X
Romulus is cited by Seneca as one who declared the divinity of Picus and Tiberinus, illustrating the absurdity of Roman civil theology.
Concerning the books of Numa Pompilius, which the senate ordered to be burned, in order that the causes of sacred rites therein assigned should not become known.
King of Rome who instituted sacred rites and secretly buried books containing their demonic causes.
XXXV
Referenced as Numa Pompilius, the successor to Romulus, who engaged in hydromancy.
V
Mentioned for concealing writings about sacred rites, which were later burned by the senate.
That God alone is the Creator of every kind of creature, whatever its nature or form
Cited as the founder of Rome, illustrating that human founders are not creators of the city's substance.
Book XV: The Progress of the Two Cities
Founder of Rome, who committed fratricide by killing his brother Remus, mirroring Cain's crime.
Of the fratricidal act of the founder of the earthly city, and the corresponding crime of the founder of Rome
Founder of Rome, slew his brother Remus to secure sole glory.
Book XVIII
Founder of Rome, deified after death; his reign is synchronous with the captivity of the ten tribes.
Of the kings of Latium, the first and twelfth of whom, Aeneas and Aventinus, were made gods
Founder of Rome, deified after his death; son of Rhea Ilia and Mars.
That Rome was founded when the Assyrian kingdom perished, at which time Hezekiah reigned in Judah
Founder of Rome, during whose reign Hezekiah is said to have reigned in Judah.
Of the Erythraean sibyl, who is known to have sung many things about Christ more plainly than the other sibyls
Mentioned in relation to the time of the Erythraean sibyl.
XXIV That the seven sages flourished in the reign of Romulus, when the ten tribes which were called Israel were led into captivity by the Chaldeans, and Romulus, when dead, had divine honours conferred on him.
Romulus reigned during this period; after his death he was deified by the Romans, a practice that later ceased except in flattery.
XXIV That the seven sages flourished in the reign of Romulus, when the ten tribes which were called Israel were led into captivity by the Chaldeans, and Romulus, when dead, had divine honours conferred on him.
Numa reigned after Romulus and thought Rome would be better defended by many gods, but he himself was not deified.
Of the times of the prophets whose oracles are contained in books, and who sang many things about the call of the Gentiles at the time when the Roman kingdom began and the Assyrian came to an end.
King of the Romans, during whose reign the prophetic writings began to appear.
Book XXII: The Eternal Blessedness of the City of God and the Resurrection of the Body
Also cited by Cicero regarding apotheosis, with the claim that his body remained on earth.
Against the Wise Men Who Deny the Resurrection of the Body
Mentioned alongside Hercules as an example of apotheosis whose body remained on earth.
VI
Founder of Rome, deified by the Roman state through love and political pressure, but lacking true divine evidence.
VII
Mentioned as a false god whose divinity is incomparable to Christ's.
Chapter X: The Greater Honor of Martyrs Compared to Demons
Mentioned as another example of a pagan figure considered a god from among dead men.
