June 5 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius
D • NON • N | Nonis | VI.213-218, these Nones belong to Semo Sanctus.
Quaerebam, Nonas Sanco Fidione referrem,
an tibi, Semo pater; tum mihi Sancus ait:
“cuicumque ex istis dederis, ego munus habebo: 215
nomina terna fero: sic voluere Cures.”
hunc igitur veteres donarunt aede Sabini
inque Quirinali constituere iugo.
213 I inquired whether I should refer the Nones to Sancus, or to Fidius, or to thee, Father Semo; then Sancus said to me: “To whomsoever of them thou mayest give it, the honour will still be mine: I bear the three names: so willed the people of Cures.” Accordingly the Sabines of old bestowed on him a shrine, and established it on the Quirinal hill.1