Quirinus

[ kwi-rahy-nuhs, -ree- ]

noun

1. an ancient Roman god of war, identified with the deified Romulus; a personification of the Roman nation.

Quirinus

/ kwɪˈraɪnəs /

noun

1. Roman myth a god of war, who came to be identified with the deified Romulus

Example Sentences

Quirinus was the name of the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome.

From Literature

No body was found in the sarcophagus, which was made of volcanic tuff rock, but according to at least one legend, Romulus vanished into the sky following his death to become the God Quirinus, meaning that possibly he never had a tomb.

From Reuters

What’s more, Caesar had his own statue added to the Temple of Quirinus, the founder of Rome.

From Literature

In this lecture he maintained, in opposition to the usual nomenclature of the catacombs, and entirely on the strength of certain topographical observations, that a particular cemetery, into which a very partial opening had been made in 1848, was that anciently called by the name of Pretextatus, and in which were buried St. Januarius, the eldest of the seven sons of St. Felicitas, Felicissimus and Agapitus, deacons of St. Sixtus, Pope Urban, Quirinus, and other famous martyrs.

From Project Gutenberg

Probably after having been concealed in the house of Quirinus the deacon, their bodies were buried in the cemetery or catacomb of Pontianus, outside the present Porta Portese, on the northern bank of the Tiber.

From Project Gutenberg