by the consul and general Lucius Licinius Lucullus in the 60s BC. Castellum Lucullanum had once served as the retirement villa of Tiberius (14-37), Rome's second emperor. By late antiquity, Castellum Lucullanum was likely fortified, and it likely functioned as a small administrative and military centre in Campania. Romulus was accompanied to Campania by a large retinue and some of his surviving relatives.

Romulus may have been alive as late as 507 or 511, when Theodoric the Great,