Quirinus
Americannoun
noun
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Other confirmed actors in the series include Nick Frost as the affable groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid, Luke Thallon as professor Quirinus Quirrell and Paul Whitehouse as caretaker Argus Filch.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
What’s more, Caesar had his own statue added to the Temple of Quirinus, the founder of Rome.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
Quirinus was the name of the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The Romans had, up to the end of the Republic, accepted only one official apotheosis; the god Quirinus, whatever his original meaning, having been identified with Romulus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Quirinus, kwi-rī′nus, n. an Italic divinity identified with the deified Romulus.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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