Quirinus

Therefore, lest the sacred rites, the performance of which pertained to the office of king, should be neglected, he created a Flamen of Jove, who was to attend constantly on the duties of that priesthood; and decorated him with a splendid dress, and a royal curule chair.

He created, likewise, two other Flamens, one of Mars, the other of Quirinus.

He also selected virgins for the service of Vesta, an order of priesthood derived from Alba, and therefore related, in some sort, to the family of the founder of the city.

For these he fixed a stipend, to be paid out of the public treasury, that they might, without interruption, attend to the business of the temple; and by enjoining virginity, and other religious observances, gave them a sanctity of character that attracted veneration.

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If the persons whom he demands are not given up, then, on the expiration of thirty-three days, that being the number enjoined by the rule, he declares war in this manner.

O Jupiter, hear me, and thou, Juno, Quirinus, and all ye gods of heaven, and ye of the earth, and ye of the infernal regions, here I call you to witness that the people, naming them, whoever they are, are unjust and do not perform what equity requires.

But concerning those affairs, we will consult the elders in our own country by what means we may obtain our right.

It likewise was the period sacred to A widow's mourning and the pomp of woe.

Quirinus, Trebia-garbed, and making laws For a rude race, thought these sufficient cause.

His father Mars he put the first in place, Venus the next, as authoress of his race.

Seniors and juniors had the third and fourth, The rest in sequent numbers he set forth.

Kalends January, Feast of Janus First, Father Janus, in my verse appear, And bid Germanicus a happy year.

O father of the year of silent track, Sole deity beholding thine own back! O biceps! present with our rulers be, Beneath whose rule the fertile earth and sea Enjoy prosperity.

Quirinus, shew thy face To Roman senate, Roman populace.

Adorn propitious is with heart and voice, Mate words and days, and bid us all rejoice.

Who would believe that she-wolf harmed them not? Who would believe she nurtured them? And what a kinsman's hand had banned, she came to save, With blandishment and tongue to lick and lave.

Plainly they sprung from Mars, no fear deters, They drain her dugs, nourished by milk of hers, And so she names the spot, and so we call From her the looper-key and looper-cull, such payment has she for her milk but now arcadius makes her claim i'll tell thee how faunus lycaeus fain an altar hath arcadia in bride patient in the path what dost thou wait for tis not herb of power nor prayer nor incantation for thy bower that can make thee a mother the right hands and fecund stripes shall break thy sterile bands for on that day when cursed with barrenness the sabine matron failed with pledge to bless and romulus exclaimed what profits me to captive sabine wife to married be if for my raid successful i reap war not to be son-in-law were better far beneath the mount esquilian is a grove sacred to juno sister wife of jove sacred from felling axe and thither came in supplication husband wedded dame and bent the knee and prayed when through the grove these accents ran accents which souls emove to wonderment let he-goat access have unto italian matrons their minds wave until an augur of hetrurian land his name now lost in eld came exiled and here sacrificed a he-goat at his behests the matrons bared their shoulders doffed their vests submitting them to strokes of thongs of hide and when the tenth month shone in her full pride the men were fathers and brides mothers were grace to lucina thence that name you bear named from the grove unless o goddess bright tis that you open infant eyes to light whiche'er it be spare o lucina spare our gentle brides and let them safely bear uncertain winds at dawning morning now distrust the winds no order rules them and no reason binds in constant and for six days all ajar the prison gates aeolian open are sol in with urn oblique aquarius now subsides and piscis four ethereal steeds provides thou and thy brother fish for ye be twain shining conjoined in the celestial reign sustained tis said two gods your backs upon dione fleeing typhon fearfullest son of terror what time jupiter assumed arms in defence of heaven wearied roamed bearing the young cupidon at her breast unto euphrates there she sate to rest by waters palestinian in reedy bed willows and poplars shading overhead she lay concealed but whilst she couched perdu the grove resounded and she pallid grew and deemed it was the enemy she pressed her son unto her bosom and addressed the nymphs for help help two divinities aid us o nymphs she said by sacred ties and leapt into the wave two fishes lent them aid and for reward are constellations made nor do the simple syrians now dare to eat a fish but worship them in fear kalendai martii quirinalia The next light vacant is, the third is named Quirinus From, the synonym far-famed of Romulus.

Whether from Sabine's spear, called Curis anciently, for to the sphere celestial he was raised in virtue of his warrior's spear, or whether from the love of a Curatian title to bring nigher the Romans and Curatians, for his sire armipotent when that he saw the walls and subjugated tribes memorials of wars romulean in high conclave said o jupiter lo rome hath gathered head and needeth not the presence of my son restore him to his sire the other one unhappily is not and he must stand for remus and himself now give command e'en as you promised to install my son in seat cerulean now let it be done jove bowed assent the poles the edict knew and trembling owned and atlas bent anew there is a spot called the capraean mere dispensing justice romulus sate there when fled the solar orb when darkness black thunders and storm and lightning rent the rack the people fled whilst the wrecks sought the stars borne by paternal steeds but jealous jars infested minds of men, and they accused the Patries of his murder, self-abused, and very surely they had held it so.

But Julius Proculus, who chanced to go by night from Alba longer, Luna light him guiding without torch, before whose sight clouds thundering on the sinister, with fear that checked his footstep and upraised his hair, the gracious Romulus, huger than mortal men decorous in his trebea who began tell the quirites i prohibit this this morning soils my apotheosis let them burn incense let them now adore their god quirinus let them learn the law of war and arms then in air he vanished and his words reported were by proculus to all and nations twain accepted the report they reared the fane surnamed the hill quirinal and each year its quirinalian feast appointed there the feast of fools and fornicalia to-day is likewise called fools festival and wherefore so a reason trivial but apt suggest it is in days of old land lacked skilled husbandmen the brave and bold were all usurped by war youth cared to throw the warlike spear more than to speed the plough absent the lord neglected was the field yet broadcast they sowed spelt and reaped the yield and offered ceres for her first fruit's meal yet even boars make progress towards their wheel they learned to parch their peas but doing so they gathered ashes set their huts alow and played old bogey so they deified dame fornax praying fornax to provide heat moderate to parch the curio maximus appoints the fornicalia and thus no stated time or season they regard with vacant eyes the tablets for each ward hung in the forum know not whose is whose or which is which they all at hazard choose and then to make all right repeat to-day last in the lists their jolly holiday and honour to the tombs appease the shades parental youths and maids place gifts on the cold pyre not gifts of price the stygian powers are not over-nice nor greedy either scatter some small fruit corn steeped in wine and salt in grain minute place on the tumulus thy coronal with violets plucked ajar to hold them all left in the footway not that tis forbade gifts of more cost but that with these the shade is satisfied add to them prayers and praise and salutations whilst the altars blaze this custom good neas introduced into thy lands latinus he was used the worthy author of such rites to pay gifts annual to his father's shade to-day the pious right descended unto us but once it happened in times perilous and overpressed by war we lapse to-day nor did it lapse free from impunity tis said from such a mission by our sires rome scorched beneath her own suburban pyres i hardly think it was so but tis said in silent night the grave sent forth their dead that wept and wailed through rome that phantom hosts swept through the civic ways and latin coasts but when the tombs their honours repossessed the plague was ceased and the ghosts went to rest pending these obsequies o maidens fair choose not a spousal day let not the spear divide your maiden tresses light no pine nor let your mothers hasten rites divine away hymenus fires like these are hostile unto thine let the divinities flee hence and hide themselves close temple gates and burn no incense light no altar grates for silent shades and buried bodies roam and spirits now the offered meats consume count backward now as many days as feet in this elegiac verse thy lips repeat so long nor longer the pharelia which close to-day to the tombs sacred are feast of dea muta see that old crone albeit not tacit she performing rites to tacita with digits three taking three grains of incense which she hides beneath the threshold where the mouse abides she sits within a circle of mute girls and with enchanted threads her spindle whirls whilst seven black beans she mumbles in her jaw amena's head she roasts sown up its maw with brazen needle and estopped with pitch and wine but drop by drop forsooth that which she libates not she drinks and so drinks all and saying now all mouths inimical and slanderous tongues are stopped the drunken crone gets up and goes her way Now all that's known about this silent goddess you shall know, told unto me by old men long ago.

With morning dawn rites artillaries paid, And chaplets offered by hands skilful made.

Temple to Jupiter Stator, And Stator hath his dedicated shrine By Romulus in front of Palatine.

Temple to Quirinus, And Eucrinus in the Trabia Three days before June closes worshipped are.

Feast of Hercules and the Muses and with to-morrow morn july is born pierian maidens let me have no scorn in my last task pierian maidens tell who placed ye here conjoint with him to dwell who suffered scathe of juno hercules so i and clio said memorial tis philippus of the great and of his child marcia the beautiful and the undefiled with name deduced from ancus martius and piety her wit and genius hereditary loveliness of face all on a par with birth deem it not base to praise her loveliness we laud the grace of goddesses celestial they were allied to house of caesar by philippus's bride o grace and glory woman worthiest hail and all hail so clio her addressed with the assent of all the gifted choir alcides nodding with responsive lyre end of section eighteen end of the fasti by o translated by john benson rose

All Greece for me, leaving Alpheus and Malorcus's grove, on foot shall strive, or with the rawhide glove, whilst I, my head with stripped green olive crowned, will offer gifts.

even tis present joy to lead the high processions to the fane and view the victims felled or how the scene sunders with shifted face and britain's suns inwoven thereon with those proud curtains rise Of gold and massive ivory on the doors I'll trace the battle of the Gangerides, and our Quirinus' conquering arms, and there surging with war and hugely flowing the Nile, and columns heaped on high with naval brass.

And Asia's vanquished cities, I will add, And quelled niphates, and the Parthian foe Who trusts in flight and backward-volleying darts, And trophies torn with twice-triumphant hand From empires twain on oceans either shore.

In breathing forms of parian marble there shall stand The offspring of Assaracus, And great names of the Jove-descended folk and father Tros, and Troy's first founder, lord of Synthus, and accursed envy there shall dread the furies, and thy ruthless flood, Cochitis, and Ixion's twisted snakes, and that vast wheel and ever-baffling stone.

Therefore, lest the sacred rites, the performance of which pertained to the office of the king, should be neglected, he created a Flamen of Jove, who was to attend constantly on the duties of that priesthood, and decorated him with a splendid dress and a royal curule chair.

He created likewise two other Flamens, one of Mars, the other of Quirinus.

He also selected virgins for the service of Vesta, an order of priesthood derived from Alba, and therefore related in some sort to the family of the founder of the city.

For these he fixed a stipend to be paid out of the public treasury, that they might, without interruption, attend to the business of the temple, and by enjoining virginity and other religious observances, gave them a sanctity of character that attracted veneration.

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If the persons whom he demands are not given up, then, on the expiration of thirty-three days, that being the number enjoined by the rule, he declares war in this manner.

O Jupiter, hear me, and thou, Juno, Quirinus, and all ye gods of heaven, and ye of the earth, and ye of the infernal regions, here I call you to witness that the people, naming them, whoever they are, are unjust, and do not perform what equity requires.

But concerning those affairs, we will consult the elders in our own country by what means we may obtain our right.

Some Romans believed that the gods had carried him into the heavens.

They later honored him as the god Quirinus.

But there was a darker version.

Some people actually suggested that Roman leaders had Romulus killed and secretly carried away his body.

Therefore, lest the sacred rites, the performance of which pertained to the office of king, should be neglected, he created a Flamen of Jove, who was to attend constantly on the duties of that priesthood; and decorated him with a splendid dress, and a royal curule chair.

He created, likewise, two other Flamens, one of Mars, the other of Quirinus.

He also selected virgins for the service of Vesta, an order of priesthood derived from Alba, and therefore related in some sort to the family of the founder of the city.

For these he fixed a stipend, to be paid out of the public treasury, that they might, without interruption, attend to the business of the temple; and by enjoining virginity, and other religious observances, gave them a sanctity of character that attracted veneration.

These words he repeats when he passes over the boundaries, the same to the first person that he meets, again when he enters the gate, and lastly when he enters the forum, only making the necessary change of a few words in the form of the declaration and of the oath.

If the persons whom he demands are not given up, then, on the expiration of thirty-three days, that being the number enjoined by the rule, he declares war in this manner.

O Jupiter, hear me, and thou, Juno, Quirinus, and all ye gods of heaven, and ye of the earth, and ye of the infernal regions, here I call you to witness that the people, naming them, whoever they are, are unjust and do not perform what equity requires.

But concerning those affairs, we will consult the elders in our own country by what means we may obtain our right.