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Quirinus , in Roman religion, an early god, possibly of war. Worshiped originally by the Sabines, he was one of the chief gods of ancient Rome, associated with Jupiter and Mars. In the late republic he was identified with Romulus, legendary founder of Rome.

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Quirinus. The signature over which a series of 69 letters on the First Vatican Council was published in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung in 1869–70. Their author is now known to have been J. J. L. von Döllinger.

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