/rom"yeuh leuhs/ , n. Rom. Legend.
1. the founder of Rome, in 753 B.C., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
2. a town in S Michigan. 24,857.