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of Quintilian was discovered in 27).
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the monastery of St. Gall by Poggio the Floren- QUINTILLUS, M. AURE'LIUS, the brother
tine, when he was attending the council of Con- of the emperor M. Aurelius Claudius Gothicus,
stance, and is probably the same with the Codex was elevated to the throne by the troops whom he
Laurentianus, now preserved at Florence.
commanded at Aquileia, in A. D. 270. But as the
The Editio Princeps of the Institutions was army at Sirmium, where Claudius died, had pro-
printed at Rome by Phil. de Lignamine, fol. 1470, claimed Aurelian emperor, Quintillus put an end
with a letter prefixed from J. A. Campanus to to his own life, seeing himself deserted by his own
Cardinal F. Piccolomini, and a second edition was soldiers, to whom the rigour of his discipline
printed at the same place in the same year, by had given offence. Most of the ancient writers
Sweynheim and Pannartz, with an address from say that he reigned only seventeen days ; but
Andrew Bishop of Aleria to Pope Paul the Second. since we find a great number of his coins, it is
These were followed by the edition of Jenson, fol. probable that he enjoyed the imperial dignity for a
Venet. 1471, and at least eight more appeared few months, as Zosimus states. He had two
before the end of the fifteenth century. The nine children. His character is said to have been un-
teen larger Declamations and The Institutions were blemished, and his praises are sounded in the
first published together at Treviso, fol. 1482. same lofty strain as those of his brother. (See
One hundred and thirty-six of the shorter de-Vol. I. p. 777. ) (Trebell Poll. Claud. 10, 12,
clamations were first published at Parma by Tadeus 13; Eutrop. ix. 12 ; Vict. Epit. 34 ; Zosim. i.
Ugoletus in 1494, were reprinted at Paris in 47 ; Eckhel, vol. vii. pp. 477, 478. )
1509, and again at the same place with the notes
and emendations of Petrus Aerodius in 1563. The
remaining nine were added from an ancient MS.
by Petrus Pithoeus (Paris, 8vo. 1580), who ap-
pended to them fifty-one pieces of a similar de-
scription bearing the title “ Ex Calpurnio Flacco
Excerptae X. Rhetorum Minorum. ”
The most important editions of Quintilian are,
that of Burmann, 2 vols. 4to. , Lug. Bat. 1720;
that of Gesner, 4to. Gott. 1738 ; and best of all,
that begun by Spalding and finished by Zumpt, 6
COIN OF QUINTILLUS.
vols. 8vo. Lips. 1798—1829. The first of the QUINTILLUS, PLAU'TIUS. 1. Consul in
above contains both the Institutions and the whole A. D. 159 with Statius Priscus (Fasti).
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QUINTUS.
66
66
2. M. , consul with Commodus in A. D. 177 | Hippocr. “ Aphor. ” iii. praef. vol. xvii. pt. ii. P.
(Fasti).
562). Ile appears to have commented on the
QUINTIUS. 1. D. QUINTIUS, a man of ob- “Aphorisms" and the “ Epidemics” of Hippocrates,
scure birth, but of great military reputation, com- but Galen says that his explanations were not
inanded the Roman fleet at Tarentum in B. c. 210, always sound" (Comment. in ilippocr. “ Epid. I. "
and was slain in a naval engagement in that year. i. praef. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 6, De Ord. Libror. suor.
(Liv. xxvi. 39. )
vol. xix. p. 57). Several of his sayings have been
2. P. Quintius, the person whom Cicero de- preserved, which show more rudeness than wit, and
fended in B. c. 81. The oration in his behalf is (as Galen says) are more suitable to a jester than
still extant.
a physician (De Sanit. Tu. iii. 13, vol. vi. p. 228,
3. L. QUINTIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 74, is Comment. in Hippocr. Epid. I'I. " iv. 9, vol.
characterised by Cicero as a man well fitted to xvii. pt. ii. p. 151 ; Pallad. Comment. in Ilip-
speak in public assemblies (Cic. Brut. 62). He pocr. - Epd. VI. " ap. Dietz, Schol. in Hippocr. et
distinguished himself by his violent opposition to Gal vol. ii. p. 113). ` lle is mentioned in several
the constitution of Sulla, and endeavoured to re- other pasenges of Galen's writings, and also by
gain for the tribunes the power of which they had Aëtius (i. I, p. 39); and he is probably the phy-
been deprived. The unpopularity excited against sician quoted by Oribasius (Synops. ad Eustuth. iii.
the judices by the general belief that they had p. 56).
(W. A. G. )
been bribed by Cluentius to condemn Oppianicus, QUINTUS, a gem-engraver, and his brother
was of service to Quintius in attacking another of Aulus, flourished probably in the time of Au-
Sulla's measures, by which the judices were taken gustus. There are several works of Aulus extant,
exclusively from the senatorial order. Quintius but only a fragment of one by Quintus. From
warmly espoused the cause of Oppianicus, con- the manner in which their names appear on their
stantly asserted his innocence, and raised the farme | works, ΑΥΛΟΣ ΑΛΕΞΑ ΕΠ. , ΚΟΙΝΤΟΣ ΑΛΕΞ
of popular indignation to such a beight, that Ju- ENGIEI, Winckelmann and Sillig conclude that
nius, who had presided at the trial, was obliged to their father's name was Alexander ; but Osann
retire from public life. L. Quintius, however, was endeavours to prove that the second word stands
not strong enough to obtain the repeal of any of for the genitive, not of 'Anégavopos, but of 'Anetās.
Sulla's laws. The consul Lucullus opposed him (Bracci, fol. 8 ; Sillig, Cat. Ari. s. v. ; Osann, in
vigorously in public, and induced him, by per- the Kunstblatt, 1830, p. 336. )
(P. S. )
suasion in private, says Plutarch, to abandon his QUINTUS CURTIUS. (CURTIUS. ]
attempts. It is not improbable that the aristo- QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS (Κόϊντος Σμυρ-
cracy made use of the powerful persuasion of money vaios), commonly called QuintUS CALABER, from
keep him quiet. (Plut. Lucull. 5 ; Sallu the circumstance that the first copy through which
Hist. p. 173, ed. Orelli ; Pseudo-Ascon. in Div. his poem became known was found in a convent
in Cuecil
. p. 103, in Act
. i. in Verr. pp. 127, 141, at Otranto in Calabria, was the author of a poem
ed. Orelli ; Cic. pro Cluent. 27–29, 37, 39. ) in 14 books, entitled τα μεθ' “Ομηρου, or παρα-
In B. C. 67 Quintius was praetor, in which year decóueva 'Ouýpo.
Scarcely any thing is known
he took his revenge upon his old enemy Lucullus, of his personal history ; but from the metrical and
by inducing the senate to send him a successor in poetic characteristics of his poem, as compared with
his province, although he had, according to a the school of Nonnus, it appears most probable that
statement of Sallust, received money from Lucullus he lived towards the end of the fourth century
to prevent the appointment of a successor. (Plut. after Christ. From a passage in his poem (xii.
Lucull
, 33, where he is erroneously called L. 308—313), it would seem that even in carly
Quintus ; Sall. ap. Schol. in Cic. de Leg. Man. p. youth he made trial of his poetic powers, while en-
441, ed. Orelli. )
gaged in tending sheep near a temple of Artemis
QUINTUS, an eminent physician at Rome, in in the territory of Smyrna. The matters treated
the former balf of the second century after Christ. of in his poem are the events of the Trojan war
He was a pupil of Marinus (Galen, Comments in from the death of Hector to the return of the
Hippocr. “ De Nat. Hom. ” ï. 6, vol. xv. p. 136), Greeks. It begins rather abruptly with a descrip-
and not his tutor, as some modern writers assert. tion of the grief and consternation at the death of
He was tutor to Lycus (id. ibid. ) and Satyrus (id. Hector which reigned among the Trojans, and then
ibid. , De Anatom. Admin. i. 1, 2, vol. ii. pp. 217, introduces Penthesileia, queen of the Amazons,
225, De Antid. i. 14, vol. xiv. p. 71), and Iphicia- who comes to their aid. In the second book we
nus (id. Comment. in Hippocr. " Epid. Ill. " i. 29, have the arrival, exploits, and death of Memnon ;
vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 575). Some persons say he in the third, the death of Achilles. The fourth
was also one of the tutors of Galen himself, but and fifth books describe the funeral games in
this is probably an error. He was so much su-honour of Achilles, the contest about his arms, and
perior to his medical colleagues that they grew the death of Ajax. In the sixth book, Neoptole-
jealous of his eminence, and formed a sort of mus is sent for by the Greeks, and Eurypylus
coalition against him, and forced him to quit the comes to the help of the Trojans. The seventh
city by charging him with killing his patients (id. and eighth books describe the arrival and exploits
De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 1, vol. xiv. p. 602). He of Neoptolemus ; the ninth contains the exploits
died about the year 148 (id. De Anat. Admin. i. of Deiphobus, and the sending for Philoctetes by
2, vol. ii. p. 225). He was particularly celebrated the Greeks. The tenth, the death of Paris and
for his knowledge of anatomy (id. De Libris Pro- the suicide of Oenone, who had refused to heal
priis, c. 2, vol. xix. p. 22), but wrote nothing him him. The eleventh book narrates the last unsuc-
self, either on this or any other medical subject (id. cessful attempt of the Greeks to carry Ilium by
Comment. in Hippocr. “De Nat. Hom. ” i. 25, iì. 6, storm ; the twelfth and thirteenth describe the
vol. xv. pp. 68, 136); his pupil Lycus professing capture of the city by means of the wooden horse ;
to deliver his master's opinions (id. Comment. in the fourteenth, the rejoicing of the Greeks, — the


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QUIRINUS.
RABIRIUS.
poems of
|
reconciliation of Menelaus and Helena, — the tary abilities and active services that he gained the
sacrifice of Polyxena at the tomb of Achilles, consulship under Angustus. He was subsequently
the embarkation of the Greeks, — the scattering of sent into Cilicia, where he subdued the Homona-
their ships, and the death of Ajax.
denses, a fierce people dwelling in Mount Taurus ;
In phraseology, similes, and other technicalities, and in consequence of this success, he received the
Quintus closely copied Homer. The materials for honour of the triumphal ornaments. In B. c. 1,
his poem he found in the works of the earlier poets or a year or two afterwards, Augustus appointed
of the epic cycle. But not a single poetical idea of him to direct the counsels of his grandson C. Cae-
his own seems ever to have inspired him. He was sar, then in Armenia ; and on his way to the East
incapable of understanding or appropriating any he paid a visit to Tiberius, who was at that time
thing except the majestic flow of the language of living at Rhodes. Some years afterwards, but not
the ancient epos.
His gods and heroes are alike before A. D. 5, he was appointed governor of Syria,
devoid of all character: every thing like pathos or and while in this office he took a census of the
moral interest was quite beyond his powers. Of Jewish people. This is the statement of Josephus,
similes (not very original in their character) he and appears to be at variance with that of Luke,
makes copious use. With respect to chronology who speaks as if the census or enrolment of Cyre-
his poem is as punctual as a diary. But his nius was made at the time of the birth of Christ.
style is clear, and marked on the whole by purity This discrepancy has given rise to much discussion
and good taste, without any bombast or exng- and various explanations, of which the reader will
geration. There can be little doubt that the find an able account in Winer's Biblisches Real-
work of Quintus Smyrnaeus is nothing more than wörterbuch, s. v. Quirinius.
an amplification or remodelling of the
Quirinus had been married to Aemilia Lepida,
Arctinus and Lesches. It is clear that he had whom he divorced ; but in a. D. 20, twenty years
access to the same sources as Virgil, though there after the divorce, he brought an accusation against
is nothing from which it would appear that he had her, because she pretended to have had a son by
the Roman poet before his eyes. He appears, him. She was at the same time accused of other
however, to have made diligent use of Apollonius. crimes ; but the conduct of Quirinus met with
The first edition of Quintus was published by general disapprobation as harsh and revengeful.
Aldus Manutius in 1504 or 1505, from a very faulty Tiberius, notwithstanding his dissimulation, was
MS. Laur. Rhodomannus, who spent thirty years evidently in favour of the prosecution, as he was
upon the correction and explanation of the text of anxious to conciliate Quirinus, who had no chil-
Quintus, published an improved edition in 1604. dren, and might therefore be expected to leave his
But the standard edition, founded on a collation property to the emperor. Quirinus died in A. D.
of all the extant manuscripts, is that of Tychsen, 21, and was honoured with a public funeral, which
Strasburg, 1807. It is also printed along with Tiberius requested of the senate. (Dion Cass. liv.
Hesiod, Apollonius, &c. , in Didot's edition, Paris, 28 ; Tac. Ann. ii. 30, iii. 22, 48 ; Suet. Tib. 49 ;
1840. A smaller poem on the Twelve Labours of Strab. xii. p. 569; Joseph. Antiq. xviii. 1. § 1;
Hercules, ascribed to Quintus Smyrnaeus, is extant St. Luke, ii. 1 ; comp. Acts of Apost. v. 37. )
in MS. (Bernhardy, Grundriss der Griech. Lit-
teratur, vol. ï. p. 246, &c. ; Tychsen, Comment.
de Quinti Smyrnaei Paralip. , Göttingen, 1783 ;
R.
the materials of which are also contained in his
edition. )
(C. P. M. ] C. RABI'RIUS, defended by Cicero in the
QUIRINA'LIS, CLO'DIUS, praefectus of the year of his consulship, B. C. 63, in a speech still
rowers at Ravenna, anticipated his condemnation extant. In B. c. 100 L. Appuleius Saturninus, the
by taking poison, A. D. 56. (Tac. Ann. xiii. 30. ) tribune of the plebs, had been declared an outlaw
QUIRI'NUS, according to Dionysius of Hali- by the senate, besieged in the Capitol, and put to
carnassus (ii. 48), a Sabine word, and perhaps to death with his accomplices, when he had been
be derived from quiris, a lance or spear. It occurs obliged to surrender through want of water. This
first of all as the name of Romulus, after he had had happened in the consulship of Marius, who
been raised to the rank of a divinity, and the fes had been compelled to conduct the attack, and had
tival celebrated in his honour bore the name of been supported by the leading men in the state.
Quirinalia (Virg. Aen, i. 292; Cic. De Nat. Deor. Among the few survivors of the actors in that
ii. 24 ; Ov. Am. iii. 8. 51, Fast. iv. 56, 808, vi. scene, was the senator C. Rabirius, who had since
375, Met.