ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA^663
- 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. - 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. - See Georges Dumézil, Archaic Roman Religion. Translated by P. Knapp, 2 vols.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970). For further reading in Roman mythol-
ogy we particularly recommend the following: Michael Grant, Roman Myths (Har-
mondsworth and Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1973; reprint, New York: Dorset, 1984).