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According to Ovid's description of the founding of Rome by Romulus (Fasti IV.809 ff.), Celer was the name of an otherwise unknown foreman, appointed by Romulus to oversee the building of Rome's first walls. Ovid, perhaps in part to exonerate the emperor Augustus' great forefather, relates how it was actually this foreman Celer (not Romulus) who struck down Remus for jumping over the wall in its early stages in an act of mockery towards his brother's attempt to fortify the new city. Romulus is portrayed by the poet as putting on a brave front at Remus' funeral, stoically suppressing his tears and grief in order to be a role model for his people. Ovid relates the account in connection with his description of the Roman festival of Parilia (April 21). Ovid also provides additional allusions to Celer's killing of Remus further on in the Fasti, in connection with festival of Lemuria (Fasti V - May 9).
Flavius Celer was a Byzantine general and magister officiorum under Emperor Anastasius (r. 491–518) in the early 6th century.
Celer is a warm drone music group based in Tokyo, Japan.
Usage examples of "celer".
The squabbles over the augurship may not have attained the height of those frightful altercations heard from the house of Celer before he died, but they enlivened the Forum mightily.
He thereupon attempted to cross the Apennines and take refuge in Cisalpine Gaul, but the passes were strictly guarded by Metellus Celer with three legions.
Titus Labienus, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and Lucius Julius Caesar arrived at the Domus Publica to find Caesar wide awake and apparently none the worse for lack of sleep.
Among these was the younger brother of Celer, Metellus Nepos, soon to assume office as tribune of the plebs.
Devoted to each other, Celer and Nepos were liked and esteemed, for they were charming and convivial men.
So Mucia Tertia has two Caecilius Metellus half brothers-Nepos Junior and Celer.
Since early December Catilina had been moving steadily into the Apennines, only to discover that Metellus Celer and Marcius Rex lay between him and the Adriatic coast.
Unconscious, brain herniating out of the splintered depths of a shocking head wound, Celer was hauled naked from his bath by servants while Clodia stood screaming, robe soaked because she had climbed into the bath in an attempt to get him out herself, covered in blood because she had held his head out of the water.
For years Celer and his little brother Nepos were my loyalest adherents.
When Celer leaps down from his horse I too regain contact with the ground.
During this last stay in the army I made an encounter of inestimable value: I took a young tribune named Celer, to whom I was attached, as my aide-de-camp.
I called Celer, who slept in the next tent, and he in his turn roused Hermogenes, but the horid warm flood went on.
Towards the end of spring I embarked for Italy on a large galley of the fleet, taking with me Celer, now become indispensable, and Diotimus of Gadara, a young Greek of slave origin encountered in Sidon, who had beauty.
But the next morning I noticed that Celer had exchanged the metal style on the writing table within reach of my bed for a reed pen.
Upon my feith, thou art som officer, Som worthy sexteyn, or som celerer, For by my fader soule, as to my doom, Thou art a maister whan thou art at hoom, No povre cloysterer, ne no novys, But a governour, wily and wys.