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"But the Palatine city was not the only one that in ancient times existed
within the circle afterwards enclosed by the Servian walls; opposite to it, in
its immediate vicinity, there lay a seconed city on the Quirinal".
to Romulus, the Fabii to Remus. That the Fabii belonged to the Hill
Romans is shown by the sacrifice of their gens- on the Quirinal,
whether that sacrifice may or may not have been connected with the
Lupercaliae.
Moreover, the Lupercus of the former college is called in inscriptions
(Orelli, 2253) -Lupercus Quinctialis vetus-; and the praenomen-Kaeso,
which was most probably connected with the Lupercal worship (see
Rom. Forschungen, i. 17), is found exclusively among the Quinctii and
Fabii: the form commonly occurring in authors, Lupercus Quinctiliusand -Quinctilianus-, is therefore a misnomer, and the college belonged
not to the comparatively recent Quinctilii, but to the far older Quinctii.
When, again, the Quinctii (Liv. i.30), or Quinctilii (Dion. iii. 29), are
named among the Alban clans, the latter reading is here to be
preferred, and the Quinctii are to be regarded rather as an old Roman
-gens-.