Brewer's: Romulus

We need no Romulus to account for Rome. We require no hypothetical person to account for a plain fact.

Romulus and Remus were suckled by a wolf; Atalanta by a she-bear.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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