Quirinus
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Romulus
spoken of as
1 expressionRomulus“Quirinus”1 mention
Ad Nationes (Latin)
To be sure, Romulus both killed his brother and ravished by guile the maidens of others.
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman deity identified by some with the deified Romulus.
but because we call our children liberi, born of us, Liber and Libera were named as born of Ceres, a thing they preserve in the case of Libera but not so in that of Liber) — hence too Romulus, whom some think to be the same as Quirinus.
Ad Nationes
Founder of Rome, deified as Quirinus despite fratricide and abduction.
To be sure, Romulus both killed his brother and ravished by guile the maidens of others.