QUYRYNE. Quirinus, a god of Sabine origin, was later taken over by the Romans. Romulus had stolen women from the Sabines to be wives for his men when he founded Rome on the Palatine Hill. As time passed, forty years according to legend, Romulus assumed the identity of Quirinus, whose name became another name for Romulus. Quirinus is called a son of Mars in Aeneid I.274-275; Met XV.863. Dante uses Quirinus as a name for Romulus, Par VIII.131-132.

The narrator calls on Mars, father of Quirinus, to help him tell Troilus's story, Tr IV.25. [Romulus]