Quiritis

A surname of Juno as protector of spearmen, to whom the spear (quiris) was decreed sacred, and whose statue leans upon a spear. See also Quirinus.

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References

Sources

  • Martianus Capella, iii, 149.
  • Plutarch. Quaestiones Romanae, 87; Romulus, 29.
  • von Orelli. Inscriptiones Latinae, 1303, sq. 8659.