Classical Mythology, 7th Edition - obinfonet: dia logou

ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 663
8. See p. 629 for Ovid's account of Aeneas' death and his epithet. The meaning of the
title Indiges is not certain. A group of gods were called the Di Indigetes, and certain
gods (e.g., Jupiter and Sol) were sometimes worshiped with this epithet. Aeneas was
sometimes called Pater Indiges.
9. The etymology of Quirites is unknown. It has the same root as the god Quirinus and
the Quirinal Hill. The Romans wrongly connected it with the Sabine town Cures.
10. See Georges Dumézil, Archaic Roman Religion. Translated by P. Knapp, 2 vols.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970). For further reading in Roman mythology
we particularly recommend the following: Michael Grant, Roman Myths (Harmondsworth
and Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1973; reprint, New York: Dorset, 1984).