Editing Quirinus (section)

===The Capitoline Triad===
His early importance led to Quirinus' inclusion in the [[Archaic Triad]] (the first [[Capitoline Triad]]), along with [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]] (then an agriculture god) and [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=Inez Scott |last=Ryberg |title=Was the Capitoline Triad Etruscan or Italic? |journal=The American Journal of Philology |volume=52 |issue=2 |year=1931 |pages=145–156|doi=10.2307/290109 |jstor=290109 }}</ref>

Over time, however, Quirinus became less significant, and he was absent from the later, more widely known triad (he and Mars had been replaced by [[Juno (mythology)|Juno]] and [[Minerva]]). [[Marcus Terentius Varro|Varro]] mentions the ''Capitolium Vetus'', an earlier cult site on the Quirinal, devoted to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva,<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Varro |author=Varro |title=De lingua latina |at=V.158}}</ref>{{efn|The Capitolium Vetus was demolished in 1625 by order of Pope Barberini.<ref>See Lanciani's work on the "Shrines of Pagan Rome".</ref>}} among whom [[Martial]] makes a distinction between the "old Jupiter" and the "new".<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Martial |author=Martial |title=Epigrams |volume=V |at=22.4 |quote=Martial remarks on a position on the [[Esquiline Hill]] from which one might see ''hinc novum Iovem, inde veterem'', "here the new Jupiter, there the old."}}</ref>