Synonyms:
Remus
Meaning: (Roman mythology) the twin brother of Romulus
Usage examples
"Tarbaby" she called him, partly because he was so black, and partly because that was the name of her favourite Uncle Remus story.
The ancient Greeks reckoned time by the Olympiads, which fact, according to this interesting clergyman, ought to prove that the Olympic games were instituted by the God Heracles or Hercules, son of Zeus; the Roman Chronology began with the building of Rome by Romulus, which by the same reasoning would prove that Romulus and Remus, born of Mars, and nursed by a she-wolf, are historical.