Quirinus
Quirinus EuropeIn Roman mythology, a war god associated with Jupiter and Mars. Quirinus was originally worshipped by the Sabines, who occupied the highest part of the Central Apennines. A colony of these people dwelt on the Quirinal Hill, and several great families at Rome were proud to recall their Sabine lineage. According to the historian Livy, writing in the first century BC, the successor of Romulus, the founder hero, was the Sabine Numa Pompilius, whom the Romans invited to become king owing to the fame of his piety. Though Numa was allotted, in retrospect, a house on the Quirinal Hill, an attraction for tourists still in Livy's time, it is unlikely that any of the historical kings of early Rome were other than Etruscans, then the dominant people in Italy.
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