,
suggests
that it which is the form that Glandorp (Onomast.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
)
Magnesia, in the persecution under Decius. That
QUADRATUS (Kodpátos, Euseb. H. E. , Syn- our Quadratus was a martyr is, we think, from the
cellus, and the Greek Menaca ; or Kovadpatos, silence of Eusebius and Jerome to such a circum-
Euseb. Chron. p. 211, ed. Scaliger, 1658), one of stance, very questionable ; and that he was mar-
the Apostolic Fathers and an early apologist for tyred under Hadrian, is inconsistent with the state-
the Christian religion. The name of Quadratus ment of those writers (Euseb. Chron. ; Hieronym.
occurs repeatedly in Eusebius (H. E. iii. 37, iv. 3, Ad Magnum, c. 4), that the Apologies of Quadra-
23, v. 17, Chron. lib. ii. ), but it is questioned tus and Aristeides led that emperor to put a stop to
whether that father speaks of one person or of the persecution. We think it not an improbablo
assia
## p. 631 (#647) ############################################
QUADRATUS.
631
QUADRATUS.
;
conjecture that Publius fell a victim during the tion to the thousandth ycar of its nativity (A. D. 248),
brief persecution thus stopped, and that Quadmtus when the Ludi Saeculares were performed with
having been appointed to succeed him, made those extraordinary pomp. It probably passed over with
exertions which Dionysius of Corinth, in his letter brevity the times of the republic, and dwelt at
to the Athenians (apud Euseb. iv. 23), commemo- greater length upon the imperial period. Suidas
mtes, to rally the dispersed members of the Church, says that the work came down to Alexander, the
and to revive their faith. Many of the Athenians, son of Mamaea ; but this is a mistake, as Alex-
however, had apostatized ; and the Church con- ander died fifteen years before the thousandth year
tinued in a feeble state till the time when Diony- of Rome. (Suidas, s. v. Kodpáros ; Steph. Byz.
sius wrote. Nothing further is known of Qua- s. vo. "Avólov, Daylonis, 'Ofú6101 ; Dion Cass.
dratus : the few and doubtſul particulars recorded | lxx. 3 ; Zosim. v. 27 ; Vulcat. Gall. Arid. Cass. 1 ;
of him have, however, been cxpanded by Halloix Agathias, i. p. 17, c. ) 2. A history of Parthia,
(Ilustr. Eccles. Oricntal. Suriptor. Vitue) into a which is frequently quoted by Stephanus Byzanti-
biography of seven chapters. (Comp. Acta Sunc- nus under the title of Παρθικά or Παρθυηνικά. (Qua-
turum, Maii, a d. xxvi. vol. vi. p. 357. )
dratus bclli Parthici scriptor, Capitol. Ver. 8 ;
The Apology of Quadratus is described by Eusc-Steph. Byz. s. vv. rnaús, Tapoós, et alibi ; comp.
bius as gencrally read in his time, and as affording Vossius, De llist. Graecis, pp. 286, 287, eu. W'es-
clear evidence of the soundness of the writer's termann ; Clinton, Fasti Rom. p. 265. )
judgment and the orthodoxy of his belief. It has QUADRA'TUS, FA'NNIUS, a contemporary
beca long lost, with the exception of a brief frag- of Horace, who speaks of him with contempt as a
ment preserved by Eusebius (11. E. iv. 3), and parasite of Tigellius Hermogenes. He was one of
given by Grabe, in his Spicilegium SS. Patrum, Sacc. those envious Roman poets who tried to depreciate
ji. p. 125 ; by Galland, in the first volume of his Horace, because his writings threw their own into
Bibliotheca Patrum; and by Routh, in his Reliquiae the shade. (Hor. Sat. i. 4. 21, i. 10. 80, with
Sucrae, vol. i. p. 73. (Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. the Schol. ; Weichert, Poctarum Latin. Reliquiae,
108, vol. i. p. 52 ; Tillemont, Mémoires, vol. ii. p. 290, &c. )
pp. 232, &c. , 588, &c. ; Grabe, l. c. ; Galland, QUADRA'TUS, L. NI'NNIUS, tribune of
Bill. Patrum, vol. i. Proleg. c. 13; Fabric. Bibl. the plebs B. c. 58, distinguished himself by his op-
Gruec. vol. vii. p. 154 ; Lardner, Credib. part ii. position to the measures of his colleague P. Clodius
book i. c. 28. & 1. )
[J. C. M. ] against Cicero. After Cicero had withdrawn from
QUADRATUS, C. ANTIUS AULUS JU'- the city, he proposed that the senate and the people
LIÙS, consul A. D. 105, with Ti. Julius Candidus, should put on mourning for the orator, and as early
in the reign of Trajan (Fasti). Spartianus (Hadr. as the first of June he brought forward a motion in
3) mentions these consuls under the names of Can- the senate for his recall from banishment. In the
didus and Quadratus.
course of the same year he dedicated the property
QUADRATUS, ASI'NIUS, the author of of Clodius to Ceres (Dion Cass. xxxviii. 14, 16, 30°;
a single epigram in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Cic. pro Sest. 31, post Red. in Sen. 2, pro Dom.
Anal. vol. ii. p. 299 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. 48). Two years afterwards Quadratus is mentioned
p. 13), which is described in the Planudean An- along with Favonius, as one of the opponents of the
thology (p. 203, Steph. , p. 206, Wechel. ) as of Lex Trebonia, which prolonged the government of
uncertain authorship, but in the Palatine MS. is the provinces to Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
headed 'Aolvviou Kovadpátou, with the further (Dion Cass. xxxix. 35). The last time that his name
superscription, eis tous åvaipedévias ÚTÒ Toll TV occurs is in B. C. 49, when he was in Cicero's neigh-
'Pwualwr úrátov EÚra, according to which it bourhood in Campania (Cic. ad Att. x. 16. $ 4).
would be inferred that the writer of the epigram In many editions of Cicero, as also in the An-
was contemporary with Sulla. (Anth. Pal. vii. nales of Pighius, he is erroneously called Mum-
312. ) But this lemma can scarcely be regarded mius. Glandorp, in his Onomasticon, calls him
as anything more than the conjecture of a gram- Numius.
marian, on the truth of which the epigram itself QUADRA'TUS, NUMI'DIUS. (QUADRA-
does not furnish sufficient evidence to decide. It TUS, UMMIDIUS. ]
is the epitaph of some enemies of the Romans QUADRA'TUS, L. STA'TIUS, consul A. D.
(apparently foreign enemies), who had fallen by a 142, with C. Cuspius Rufinus (Fasti).
secret and treacherous death, after fighting most QUADRATUS, UMMI'DIUS, the name of
bravely. There is nothing in it to support the several persons under the early Roman emperors.
conjecture of Salmasius, that it refers to the death There is considerable discrepancy in the ortho-
of Catiline and his associates. Jacobs, following graphy of the name. Josephus writes it Numidius,
the lemma of the Palatine MS.
, suggests that it which is the form that Glandorp (Onomast. p. 631)
may refer to the slaughter of many of the Athe- has adopted ; while in the different editions of Taci-
nians, after the taking of Athens by Sulla. (Ani- tus, Pliny, and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, we
madv. in Anth. Graec. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 366. ) To find it written variously Numidius, Vinidius, and
these another conjecture might be added, namely, Ummidius. The latter, which occurs in some of
that the epigram refers to some event which oc- the best manuscripts, is supported by the authority
curred in the later wars of Rome, and that its of inscriptions, and is evidently the correct form.
author is no other than the Roman historian of In the passage of Horace (Sat. i. 1. 95) where the
the time of Philippus. See below. [P. S. ] present reading is Ummidius, there is the same
QUADRA'TUS, ASI'NIUS, lived in the times variation in the manuscripts, but Bentley has shown
of Philippus I. and II. , emperors of Rome (1. D. that the true reading is Ummidius.
244-249), and wrote two historical works in the 1. UMMIDIUS QUADRATUS, was governor of
Greek language. 1. A history of Rome, in fifteen Syria during the latter end of the reign of Clau-
books, in the Ionic dialect, called Xilietnpís, because dius, and the commencement of the reign of Nero.
it related the history of the city, from its founda- ) He succeeded Cassius Longinus in the province
SS 4
## p. 632 (#648) ############################################
632
QUADRATUS.
QUADRIGARIUS.
about A. D. 51, and continued to govern it till his put to death, A. D. 183. (Herodian. i. 8; Lamprid.
death in A. D. 60. Only three circumstances are commod. 4 ; Dion Cass. lxxii. 4. )
mentioned in connection with his administration. QUADRATUS, C. VOLUSE'NUS, a tribune
In A. D. 52 he allowed Rhadamistus to dethrone of the soldiers in Caesar's army in Gaul, is de-
and put to death Mithridates, the king of Armenia, scribed as “ vir et consilii magni et virtutis. " He
whom Tiberius had placed upon the throne, and held the rank of Praefectus equitum under his old
whom the Romans had hitherto supported. In commander in the campaign against Pompey in
the same year he marched into Judaeam, and put Greece, in B. C. 48. (Caes. B. G. ii. 5, viii. 23,
down the disturbances which prevailed in that B. C. iii. 60. ) He was tribune of the plebs, B. C. 43,
country. He is said to have condemned, or, ac- and one of the supporters of Antony. (Cic. Phil.
cording to other accounts, to have sent to the em- xiv, 7. $ 21, where the correct reading is idem
peror Claudius for trial, Ventidius Cumanus, one Ventidium, cum alii praetorem, tribunum Volusenum,
of the procuratores, but to have protected Antonius cgo semper hostem. )
Felix, the other procurator. (Comp. Felix, p. 143,
p
QUADRIFRONS, a surname of Janus. It is
a. ) The other circumstance is his disagreement said that after the conquest of the Faliscans an
with Domitius Corbulo, who had been sent into image of Janus was found with four foreheads.
the East to conduct the war against the Parthians. Hence afterwards a temple of Janus quadrifrons
His name occurs on one of the coins of Antioch. was built in the Forum transitorium, which had
(Joseph. Ant. xx. 5. § 2, B. J. ii. 12. SS 5, 6; four gates. The fact of the god being represented
Tac. Ann. xii. 45, &c. , 54, xiii. 8, 9, xiv. 26 ; Eckhel, with four heads is considered by the ancients to
vol. iii. p. 200. ) In the editions of Tacitus the be an indication of his being the divinity presiding
praenomen of Quadratus is Titus, but it appears over the year with its four seasons. (Serv. ad Aen.
from an inscription that this is a mistake, and that vii. 607 ; Isid. Orig. viii. 11 ; August. De Civ.
his real praenomen was Cuius. (Orelli, Inscr. 3665. ) | Dei, vii. 4. )
[L. S. )
We learn from the same inscription that his full QUADRIGA'RIUS, Q. CLAU’DIUS, a Roman
name was C. Ummidius Durmius Quadratus, and historian who flourished about B. c. 100 (Vell. Pat.
that he had been previously the legatus of Caligula ii
. 9). His work, which is generally quoted under
in Lusitania. The Ummidia Quadratilla, whose the title Annales (Gell. ix. 13. $ 6), sometimes as
death in the reign of Trajan is mentioned by Historiae (Priscian. p. 697, ed. Putsch. ) and some-
Pliny (QUADRATULLA), was in all probability a times as Rerum Romanarum Libri (Non. s. v.
sister of the above. She could hardly have been a pristis), commenced immediately after the destruc-
daughter, as some modern writers have supposed, tion of Rome by the Gauls, and must in all proba-
since she had a grandson of the age of twenty-four bility have extended down to the death of Sulla,
and upwards at the time of her death (see below, since there were at least twenty-three books (Gell.
No. 2], and it is not probable that Ummidius, x. 13), and the seventh consulship of Marius was
who died in A. D. 60, could have had a great-grand-commemorated in the nineteenth.
son of that age about A. D. 100.
The first book embraced the events comprised in
2. UMMIDIUS QUADRATUS, a friend and ad- the period from B. C. 390 down to the subjugation
mirer of the younger Pliny, whom he took as his of the Samnites. The struggle with Pyrrhus was
model in oratory. Pliny speaks of him in the the chief subject of the second and third ; the first
highest terms, and praises both his abilities and Punic war commenced in the third, and was con-
his excellent moral character. He was the grand-tinued through the fourth ; the second Punic war
son of the wealthy Ummidia Quadratilla, and in commenced in the fifth, which contained the battle
herited two-thirds of her property. [QUADRA of Cannae ; the siege of Capua was included in the
TILLA. ] In the estate thus bequeathed to him sixth ; the hostilities with the Achaean league and
was the house formerly inhabited by the celebrated Numantia in the eighth, and the seventh consulship
jurist Cassius Longinus. He married at the age of of Marius in the nineteenth, as was remarked
twenty-four, in the life-time of his grandmother, above.
but lost his wife soon after their marriage. (Plin. By Livy he is uniformly referred to simply as
Ep. vi. 11, vii. 24. ) Two of Pliny's letters are Claudius or Clodius, and is thus distinguished from
addressed to him (Ep. vi. 29, ix. 13), in the latter Clodius Licinius (Liv. xxix. 22), and from “ Clau-
of which Pliny gives an account of the celebrated dius qui Annales Acilianos ex Graeco in Latinum
attack which he made upon Publicius Certus in sermonem vertit. " (Liv. xxv. 39. Comp. xxxv. 14. )
the senate, in the reign of Nerva, A. D. 96. By other authors he is cited as Quintus (Priscian.
3. UMMIDIUS QUADRATUS, is mentioned as one p. 960, ed. Putsch), as Claudius (Non. Marcell. s. v.
of the persons whom Hadrian persecuted. (Spartian. Reticulum), as R. Claudius (Gell. ix. 13. § 6;
Hadr. 15. ) He may have been a son of No. 2, | Priscian. p. 797, ed. Putsch. ), as Claudius Quadri-
who probably married again after the time that garius (Non. Marcell. s.
Magnesia, in the persecution under Decius. That
QUADRATUS (Kodpátos, Euseb. H. E. , Syn- our Quadratus was a martyr is, we think, from the
cellus, and the Greek Menaca ; or Kovadpatos, silence of Eusebius and Jerome to such a circum-
Euseb. Chron. p. 211, ed. Scaliger, 1658), one of stance, very questionable ; and that he was mar-
the Apostolic Fathers and an early apologist for tyred under Hadrian, is inconsistent with the state-
the Christian religion. The name of Quadratus ment of those writers (Euseb. Chron. ; Hieronym.
occurs repeatedly in Eusebius (H. E. iii. 37, iv. 3, Ad Magnum, c. 4), that the Apologies of Quadra-
23, v. 17, Chron. lib. ii. ), but it is questioned tus and Aristeides led that emperor to put a stop to
whether that father speaks of one person or of the persecution. We think it not an improbablo
assia
## p. 631 (#647) ############################################
QUADRATUS.
631
QUADRATUS.
;
conjecture that Publius fell a victim during the tion to the thousandth ycar of its nativity (A. D. 248),
brief persecution thus stopped, and that Quadmtus when the Ludi Saeculares were performed with
having been appointed to succeed him, made those extraordinary pomp. It probably passed over with
exertions which Dionysius of Corinth, in his letter brevity the times of the republic, and dwelt at
to the Athenians (apud Euseb. iv. 23), commemo- greater length upon the imperial period. Suidas
mtes, to rally the dispersed members of the Church, says that the work came down to Alexander, the
and to revive their faith. Many of the Athenians, son of Mamaea ; but this is a mistake, as Alex-
however, had apostatized ; and the Church con- ander died fifteen years before the thousandth year
tinued in a feeble state till the time when Diony- of Rome. (Suidas, s. v. Kodpáros ; Steph. Byz.
sius wrote. Nothing further is known of Qua- s. vo. "Avólov, Daylonis, 'Ofú6101 ; Dion Cass.
dratus : the few and doubtſul particulars recorded | lxx. 3 ; Zosim. v. 27 ; Vulcat. Gall. Arid. Cass. 1 ;
of him have, however, been cxpanded by Halloix Agathias, i. p. 17, c. ) 2. A history of Parthia,
(Ilustr. Eccles. Oricntal. Suriptor. Vitue) into a which is frequently quoted by Stephanus Byzanti-
biography of seven chapters. (Comp. Acta Sunc- nus under the title of Παρθικά or Παρθυηνικά. (Qua-
turum, Maii, a d. xxvi. vol. vi. p. 357. )
dratus bclli Parthici scriptor, Capitol. Ver. 8 ;
The Apology of Quadratus is described by Eusc-Steph. Byz. s. vv. rnaús, Tapoós, et alibi ; comp.
bius as gencrally read in his time, and as affording Vossius, De llist. Graecis, pp. 286, 287, eu. W'es-
clear evidence of the soundness of the writer's termann ; Clinton, Fasti Rom. p. 265. )
judgment and the orthodoxy of his belief. It has QUADRA'TUS, FA'NNIUS, a contemporary
beca long lost, with the exception of a brief frag- of Horace, who speaks of him with contempt as a
ment preserved by Eusebius (11. E. iv. 3), and parasite of Tigellius Hermogenes. He was one of
given by Grabe, in his Spicilegium SS. Patrum, Sacc. those envious Roman poets who tried to depreciate
ji. p. 125 ; by Galland, in the first volume of his Horace, because his writings threw their own into
Bibliotheca Patrum; and by Routh, in his Reliquiae the shade. (Hor. Sat. i. 4. 21, i. 10. 80, with
Sucrae, vol. i. p. 73. (Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. the Schol. ; Weichert, Poctarum Latin. Reliquiae,
108, vol. i. p. 52 ; Tillemont, Mémoires, vol. ii. p. 290, &c. )
pp. 232, &c. , 588, &c. ; Grabe, l. c. ; Galland, QUADRA'TUS, L. NI'NNIUS, tribune of
Bill. Patrum, vol. i. Proleg. c. 13; Fabric. Bibl. the plebs B. c. 58, distinguished himself by his op-
Gruec. vol. vii. p. 154 ; Lardner, Credib. part ii. position to the measures of his colleague P. Clodius
book i. c. 28. & 1. )
[J. C. M. ] against Cicero. After Cicero had withdrawn from
QUADRATUS, C. ANTIUS AULUS JU'- the city, he proposed that the senate and the people
LIÙS, consul A. D. 105, with Ti. Julius Candidus, should put on mourning for the orator, and as early
in the reign of Trajan (Fasti). Spartianus (Hadr. as the first of June he brought forward a motion in
3) mentions these consuls under the names of Can- the senate for his recall from banishment. In the
didus and Quadratus.
course of the same year he dedicated the property
QUADRATUS, ASI'NIUS, the author of of Clodius to Ceres (Dion Cass. xxxviii. 14, 16, 30°;
a single epigram in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Cic. pro Sest. 31, post Red. in Sen. 2, pro Dom.
Anal. vol. ii. p. 299 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. 48). Two years afterwards Quadratus is mentioned
p. 13), which is described in the Planudean An- along with Favonius, as one of the opponents of the
thology (p. 203, Steph. , p. 206, Wechel. ) as of Lex Trebonia, which prolonged the government of
uncertain authorship, but in the Palatine MS. is the provinces to Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
headed 'Aolvviou Kovadpátou, with the further (Dion Cass. xxxix. 35). The last time that his name
superscription, eis tous åvaipedévias ÚTÒ Toll TV occurs is in B. C. 49, when he was in Cicero's neigh-
'Pwualwr úrátov EÚra, according to which it bourhood in Campania (Cic. ad Att. x. 16. $ 4).
would be inferred that the writer of the epigram In many editions of Cicero, as also in the An-
was contemporary with Sulla. (Anth. Pal. vii. nales of Pighius, he is erroneously called Mum-
312. ) But this lemma can scarcely be regarded mius. Glandorp, in his Onomasticon, calls him
as anything more than the conjecture of a gram- Numius.
marian, on the truth of which the epigram itself QUADRA'TUS, NUMI'DIUS. (QUADRA-
does not furnish sufficient evidence to decide. It TUS, UMMIDIUS. ]
is the epitaph of some enemies of the Romans QUADRA'TUS, L. STA'TIUS, consul A. D.
(apparently foreign enemies), who had fallen by a 142, with C. Cuspius Rufinus (Fasti).
secret and treacherous death, after fighting most QUADRATUS, UMMI'DIUS, the name of
bravely. There is nothing in it to support the several persons under the early Roman emperors.
conjecture of Salmasius, that it refers to the death There is considerable discrepancy in the ortho-
of Catiline and his associates. Jacobs, following graphy of the name. Josephus writes it Numidius,
the lemma of the Palatine MS.
, suggests that it which is the form that Glandorp (Onomast. p. 631)
may refer to the slaughter of many of the Athe- has adopted ; while in the different editions of Taci-
nians, after the taking of Athens by Sulla. (Ani- tus, Pliny, and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, we
madv. in Anth. Graec. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 366. ) To find it written variously Numidius, Vinidius, and
these another conjecture might be added, namely, Ummidius. The latter, which occurs in some of
that the epigram refers to some event which oc- the best manuscripts, is supported by the authority
curred in the later wars of Rome, and that its of inscriptions, and is evidently the correct form.
author is no other than the Roman historian of In the passage of Horace (Sat. i. 1. 95) where the
the time of Philippus. See below. [P. S. ] present reading is Ummidius, there is the same
QUADRA'TUS, ASI'NIUS, lived in the times variation in the manuscripts, but Bentley has shown
of Philippus I. and II. , emperors of Rome (1. D. that the true reading is Ummidius.
244-249), and wrote two historical works in the 1. UMMIDIUS QUADRATUS, was governor of
Greek language. 1. A history of Rome, in fifteen Syria during the latter end of the reign of Clau-
books, in the Ionic dialect, called Xilietnpís, because dius, and the commencement of the reign of Nero.
it related the history of the city, from its founda- ) He succeeded Cassius Longinus in the province
SS 4
## p. 632 (#648) ############################################
632
QUADRATUS.
QUADRIGARIUS.
about A. D. 51, and continued to govern it till his put to death, A. D. 183. (Herodian. i. 8; Lamprid.
death in A. D. 60. Only three circumstances are commod. 4 ; Dion Cass. lxxii. 4. )
mentioned in connection with his administration. QUADRATUS, C. VOLUSE'NUS, a tribune
In A. D. 52 he allowed Rhadamistus to dethrone of the soldiers in Caesar's army in Gaul, is de-
and put to death Mithridates, the king of Armenia, scribed as “ vir et consilii magni et virtutis. " He
whom Tiberius had placed upon the throne, and held the rank of Praefectus equitum under his old
whom the Romans had hitherto supported. In commander in the campaign against Pompey in
the same year he marched into Judaeam, and put Greece, in B. C. 48. (Caes. B. G. ii. 5, viii. 23,
down the disturbances which prevailed in that B. C. iii. 60. ) He was tribune of the plebs, B. C. 43,
country. He is said to have condemned, or, ac- and one of the supporters of Antony. (Cic. Phil.
cording to other accounts, to have sent to the em- xiv, 7. $ 21, where the correct reading is idem
peror Claudius for trial, Ventidius Cumanus, one Ventidium, cum alii praetorem, tribunum Volusenum,
of the procuratores, but to have protected Antonius cgo semper hostem. )
Felix, the other procurator. (Comp. Felix, p. 143,
p
QUADRIFRONS, a surname of Janus. It is
a. ) The other circumstance is his disagreement said that after the conquest of the Faliscans an
with Domitius Corbulo, who had been sent into image of Janus was found with four foreheads.
the East to conduct the war against the Parthians. Hence afterwards a temple of Janus quadrifrons
His name occurs on one of the coins of Antioch. was built in the Forum transitorium, which had
(Joseph. Ant. xx. 5. § 2, B. J. ii. 12. SS 5, 6; four gates. The fact of the god being represented
Tac. Ann. xii. 45, &c. , 54, xiii. 8, 9, xiv. 26 ; Eckhel, with four heads is considered by the ancients to
vol. iii. p. 200. ) In the editions of Tacitus the be an indication of his being the divinity presiding
praenomen of Quadratus is Titus, but it appears over the year with its four seasons. (Serv. ad Aen.
from an inscription that this is a mistake, and that vii. 607 ; Isid. Orig. viii. 11 ; August. De Civ.
his real praenomen was Cuius. (Orelli, Inscr. 3665. ) | Dei, vii. 4. )
[L. S. )
We learn from the same inscription that his full QUADRIGA'RIUS, Q. CLAU’DIUS, a Roman
name was C. Ummidius Durmius Quadratus, and historian who flourished about B. c. 100 (Vell. Pat.
that he had been previously the legatus of Caligula ii
. 9). His work, which is generally quoted under
in Lusitania. The Ummidia Quadratilla, whose the title Annales (Gell. ix. 13. $ 6), sometimes as
death in the reign of Trajan is mentioned by Historiae (Priscian. p. 697, ed. Putsch. ) and some-
Pliny (QUADRATULLA), was in all probability a times as Rerum Romanarum Libri (Non. s. v.
sister of the above. She could hardly have been a pristis), commenced immediately after the destruc-
daughter, as some modern writers have supposed, tion of Rome by the Gauls, and must in all proba-
since she had a grandson of the age of twenty-four bility have extended down to the death of Sulla,
and upwards at the time of her death (see below, since there were at least twenty-three books (Gell.
No. 2], and it is not probable that Ummidius, x. 13), and the seventh consulship of Marius was
who died in A. D. 60, could have had a great-grand-commemorated in the nineteenth.
son of that age about A. D. 100.
The first book embraced the events comprised in
2. UMMIDIUS QUADRATUS, a friend and ad- the period from B. C. 390 down to the subjugation
mirer of the younger Pliny, whom he took as his of the Samnites. The struggle with Pyrrhus was
model in oratory. Pliny speaks of him in the the chief subject of the second and third ; the first
highest terms, and praises both his abilities and Punic war commenced in the third, and was con-
his excellent moral character. He was the grand-tinued through the fourth ; the second Punic war
son of the wealthy Ummidia Quadratilla, and in commenced in the fifth, which contained the battle
herited two-thirds of her property. [QUADRA of Cannae ; the siege of Capua was included in the
TILLA. ] In the estate thus bequeathed to him sixth ; the hostilities with the Achaean league and
was the house formerly inhabited by the celebrated Numantia in the eighth, and the seventh consulship
jurist Cassius Longinus. He married at the age of of Marius in the nineteenth, as was remarked
twenty-four, in the life-time of his grandmother, above.
but lost his wife soon after their marriage. (Plin. By Livy he is uniformly referred to simply as
Ep. vi. 11, vii. 24. ) Two of Pliny's letters are Claudius or Clodius, and is thus distinguished from
addressed to him (Ep. vi. 29, ix. 13), in the latter Clodius Licinius (Liv. xxix. 22), and from “ Clau-
of which Pliny gives an account of the celebrated dius qui Annales Acilianos ex Graeco in Latinum
attack which he made upon Publicius Certus in sermonem vertit. " (Liv. xxv. 39. Comp. xxxv. 14. )
the senate, in the reign of Nerva, A. D. 96. By other authors he is cited as Quintus (Priscian.
3. UMMIDIUS QUADRATUS, is mentioned as one p. 960, ed. Putsch), as Claudius (Non. Marcell. s. v.
of the persons whom Hadrian persecuted. (Spartian. Reticulum), as R. Claudius (Gell. ix. 13. § 6;
Hadr. 15. ) He may have been a son of No. 2, | Priscian. p. 797, ed. Putsch. ), as Claudius Quadri-
who probably married again after the time that garius (Non. Marcell. s.
