Ianum Quirini: the Gateway of Quirinus, the Sabine war-god identified with Mars. The usual phrase seems to have been lanum Quirinum. Cf. Mon. Ancyr. II.42, where the probable reading is (Ianum) Quirin(um), and where the Greek translation has πύλη Ἐνυάλιος; and Suet. Oct.22, Ianum Quirinum semel atque iterum a condita urbe clausum. The gates of the covered arcade passage in the Forum, commonly called the temple of Janus, were closed only in time of peace by the institution of Numa. Cf. Livy, 1.19.2. They were shut once in the reign of Numa, once at the end of the first Punic war, and thrice by Augustus, in 725, 729, 746. Verg. Aen. 7.607, 1.294; Ovid, Epist. Ex Ponto, 1.2.126, clausit et aeterna civica bella sera.--ordinem rectum evaganti: swerving from the straight course.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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