(Νομᾶς/Nomâs, Νόμας/Nómas, Νουμᾶς/Noumâs). In the ancient tradition the second king of Rome after Romulus, founder of Roman sacred law and Roman state cult (sacra publica: Liv. 1,32,2).
The patronymic ‘Numas’ in an Etruscan inscription on an urn from Perugia from the Hellenistic period (ET Nr. Pe 1.11; [3. 350]) constitutes no proof of an Etruscan origin for the name (different e.g. [1. 88]). According to tradition N. hailed from the city of Cures in the land of the Sabines. His birthday coincides with the …