Cum subito sole obscurato non comparuisset (cic. resp . 2 .17)

In the face of an imposing and very authoritative history of studies regarding the various traditions about the end and the „disappearance” of the founding king of Rome, this brief note draws attention to some minor aspects and figures of the com- plex and contradictory Romulean saga, attempting to investigate the times, modes, promoters and motives of its elaboration and exploitation.