Lupus. - The wolf was sacred to Mars. - On a coin of the Satriena family, we see a she-wolf walking, and above it the word ROMA. - A wolf is also the distinctive sign of the Roman colonial town of Ilerda, now Lerida, in Spain - See Ilerda.
On a coin of the Papia family, we see a wolf holding a log in his mouth, whilst an eagle stands by it with expanded wings, near a fire. This coin was struck to shew the origin of the Papii in the town of Lanuvium, of whose "wonderful wolf" Dionysius Halicarnassus relates a strange story. - See Papia.