son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, twin brother of Romulus, exposed at birth in a basket floated on the Tiber River and washed a shore under a fig tree; the twins were suckled by a she-wolf.
Remus is the inner and smaller moon of the main belt asteroid 87 Sylvia. It follows an almost-circular close-to-equatorial orbit around the parent asteroid. In this respect it is similar to the other moon Romulus.
(Latin) oar; while the most popular ship was a trireme (with three sets of oars), there were also biremis (ships with two sets of oars), quadremis (four sets of oars) and quinqueremis (five sets of oars).