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Quirinus was originally most likely a [[Sabine]] god. The Sabines had a settlement near the eventual site of [[Rome, Italy|Rome]], and erected an altar to Quirinus on the ''Collis Quirinalis'', the [[Quirinal Hill]], one of the [[Seven Hills of Rome]]. When the Romans settled there, they absorbed the cult of Quirinus into their early belief system — previous to direct Greek influence — and he was said to be the deified [[Romulus]]. He soon became an important god of the Roman state, being included in the earliest precursor of the [[Capitoline Triad]], along with [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]] (then an agriculture god) and [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]].<ref>Inez Scott Ryberg, "Was the Capitoline Triad Etruscan or Italic?" ''The American Journal of Philology'' '''52'''.2 (1931), pp. 145-156.</ref> [[Marcus Terentius Varro|Varro]] notes the ''Capitolium Vetus'' an earlier cult sited on the Quirinal, devoted to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva,<ref>Varro, ''De lingua latina'' V.158.</ref> among whom [[Martial]] makes a distinction between the "old Jupiter" and the "new".<ref>Martial, (V, 22.4) remarks on a position on the [[Esquiline]] from which one might see ''hinc novum Iovem, inde veterm'', "here the new Jupiter, there the old."</ref>
In later times, however, Quirinus became far less important, losing his place to the later, more widely known Capitoline Triad ([[Juno (mythology)|Juno]] and [[Minerva]] took his and Mars' place). Later still,
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