Editing Sabines (section)

===Traditions===
Tradition suggests that the population of the early [[Roman Kingdom|Roman kingdom]] was the result of a union of Sabines and others. Some of the [[gens|gentes]] of the [[Roman Republic|Roman republic]] were proud of their Sabine heritage, such as the [[Claudia gens]], assuming Sabinus as a [[cognomen]] or [[agnomen]]. Some specifically Sabine deities and [[cult]]s were known at Rome: [[Semo Sancus]] and [[Quirinus]], and at least one area of the town, the [[Quirinale]], where the temples to those latter deities were located, had once been a Sabine centre. The extravagant claims of [[Varro]] and [[Cicero]] that [[augury]], [[divination]] by dreams and the worship of [[Minerva]] and [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]] originated with the Sabines are disputable, as they were general Italic and Latin customs, as well as [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]], even though they were espoused by [[Numa Pompilius]], second king of Rome and a Sabine.<ref name=smith_sabini>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Sabini|encyclopedia=Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography|year=1857|first=Edward Herbert|last=Bunbury|editor-first=William|editor-last=Smith|volume=II Iabadius – Zymethus|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown and Company}}{{ISBN?}}</ref>