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QUIRINUS
, the See also:Sabine name of the See also:god See also:Mars, probably an See also:adjective meaning " wielder of the See also:spear " (Quiris, cf
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See also:Janus Quirinus)
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Other suggested etymologies are: (1) from the Sabine See also:town See also:Cures; (2) from See also:curia, i.e. he was the god of the See also:Roman See also:state as represented by the See also:thirty curies
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See also:Cook (Class
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Rev. xviii., p
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368) explains Quirinus as the See also:oak-god (quercus), and See also:Quirites as the men of the oaken spear
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From See also:early times he was worshipped at See also:Rome on the Quirinal See also: Old Roman formulae of See also:prayer mention a Hora Quirini, his See also:female cult See also:associate, afterwards identified with Hersilia, the wife of Romulus . The name was also See also:borne by the following See also:saints: (r) a Roman See also:tribune who suffered martyrdom under See also:Hadrian; (2) a See also:bishop of Siscia in See also:Pannonia; (3) the See also:patron of the See also:Tegernsee in See also:Bavaria, beheaded in Rome in 269 and invoked by those suffering from See also:gout . The See also:petroleum (Quirinus-oil) found in the neighbourhood of the See also:lake takes its name from him . |
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