[1445]. ‘Iocantes obvios petiverunt’ (Val. Max.). Mannhardt, Myth. Forsch. 140 foll.
[1446]. Mon. Ancyr. iv. 2; Marq. 446.
[1447]. Baronius, Annal. Eccles. viii. 60 foll.
[1448]. Aust, de Aedibus sacris, p. 11; Jordan, Eph. Epigr. iii. 238.
[1449]. e. g. Cic. ad Quint. Fratr. 2. 3. 2.
[1450]. See other references in Preller, i. 374, note. Ambrosch (Studien, 169, note 50) observes that Cicero (de Off. 3. 10) writes with a trace of scepticism: ‘Romulus fratre interempto sine controversia peccavit, pace vel Quirini vel Romuli dixerim.’
[1451]. See Jordan on Preller, i. 369. The article ‘Quirinus’ in Myth. Lex. has not yet appeared as I write.
[1452]. Studien, 169.
[1453]. C. I. L. i. 41 = vi. 475 and i. 630 = vi. 565. The older one is attributed by Mommsen to the consul P. Cornelius of B.C. 236: ‘P. Corn[elios] L. f. coso[l] prob[avit] Mar[te sacrom].’ The other, ‘Quirino L. Aimilius L. f. praitor,’ must be set down to an Aemilius praetor in 204, 191, or 190. The inference is that Mars became known as Quirinus in that spot at the end of the third century B.C. It is worth noting that the legendary smith, Mamurius, had a statue on the Quirinal (Jord. Top. ii. 125).
[1454]. This is much what Dion. Hal. 2. 48 says was one view held in his time: οὐκ ἔχοντας εἰπεῖν τὸ ἀκριβὲς εἴτε Ἄρης ἐστὶν εἴτε ἕτερός τις ὁμοίας Ἄρει τιμὰς ἔχων.