Editing Quirinus (section)

===Deified Romulus===
By the time of the poet Ennius in the 2nd century,{{sfn|Ogilvie|1970|p=84, rejecting arguments that [[Julius Caesar]], as ''pontifex maximus'' from 63&nbsp;BCE, was involved in the creation of the legend}} Quirinus was considered the [[Apotheosis#Ancient Rome|deified]] legendary first king, [[Romulus]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Fishwich |first=Duncan |title=The Imperial Cult in the Latin West |publisher=Brill |edition=2nd |year=1993 |isbn=978-90-04-07179-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4II_mqxM8s0C&q=romulus+quirinus&pg=PA53 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Evans |first=Jane de&nbsp;Rose |title=The Art of Persuasion |publisher=University of Michigan Press |year=1992 |isbn=0-472-10282-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2AsRrF3ej38C&q=romulus+quirinus&pg=PA103 |via=Google Books}}</ref> 

In his [[Parallel Lives|''Life of Romulus'']], [[Plutarch]] wrote that, shortly after Rome's founder had disappeared under what some considered suspicious circumstances, a Roman noble named [[Proculus Julius]] reported that [[Romulus]] had come to him while he was travelling. He claimed that [[Romulus]] had instructed him to tell his countrymen that he, Romulus, was Quirinus.<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Plutarch |author=Plutarch |title=Lives |chapter=Romulus |at=ch.&nbsp;28 p.&nbsp;2 |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/romulus*.html}}</ref> This story also likely dates to before the 1st century&nbsp;BC.{{sfn|Ogilvie|1970|pp=84–85 (citing {{harvnb|Livy|loc=1.16}}), arguing that it is connected to the Julian clan's claims of Alban descent}}