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conjecture that Publius fell a victim during the tion to the thousandth year of its nativity (A. D. 248),
brief persecution thus stopped, and that Quadratus 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), cominemo- greater length upon the imperial period. Suidas
rates, 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 Mallaea; but this is a mistake, as Alexhowever, 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. KoapciTos; Steph. Byz.
sius wrote. Nothing further is known of Qua- s. vv.'AAYOov, OaiL7roAls,'OfvesoL; Dion Cass.
dratus: the few and doubtful particulars recorded lxx. 3; Zosim. v. 27; Vulcat. Gall. Avid. Cass. 1;
of him have, however, been expanded by Halloix Agathias, i. p. 17, c.) 2. A history of Parthia,
(Illustr. Eccles. Oriental. Saripntor. Vitae) into a which is frequently quoted by Stephanus Byzantibiography of seven chapters. (Comp. Acta Sanc- nius under the title of flapOrKca or Ilap0ovlmLKi. (Quatorum, Maii, a. d. xxvi. vol. vi. p. 357.) dratus belli Parthici scriptor, Capitol. Ver. 8;
The Apology of Quadratus is described by Euse- Steph. Byz. s. v. rAvs, Tapco's, et alibi; comp.
bius as generally read in his time, and as affording Vossius, De Ilist. Graecis, pp. 286, 287, ed. Wesclear evidence of the soundness of the writer's termann; Clinton, Fasti Roms. p. 265.)
judgment and the orthodoxy of his belief. It has QUADRA'TUS, FA'NNIUS, a contemporary
been long lost, with the exception of a brief frag- of Horace, who speaks of him with contempt as a
ment preserved by Eusebius (H. E. iv. 3), and parasite of Tigellius Hermogenes. He was one of
given by Grabe, in his SpicilegiumsSS. Patrumn, Saec. those envious Roman poets who tried to depreciate
ii. p. 125; by Galland, in the first volume of his Horace, because his writings threw their own into
Bibliotheca Patrumn; and by Routh, in his Reliquiae the shade. (Hor. Sat. i. 4. 21, i. 10. 80, with
Scerae, vol. i. p. 73. (Cave, Ilist. Litt. ad ann. the Schol.; Weichert, Poetarumn Latin2. Reliquiae,
108, vol. i. p. 52; Tillemont, Mimoires, vol. ii. p. 290, &c.)
pp. 232, &c., 588, &c.; Grabe, 1. c.; Galland, QUADRA'TUS, L. NIPNNIUS, tribune of
Bibl. Patrunta vol. i. Proleg. c. 13; Fabric. Bibl. the plebs B. c. 58, distinguished himself by his opGrac. 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
QUADRA'TUS, C. A'NTIUS AULUS JU'- the city, he proposed that the senate and the people
LIUS, 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
QUADRA'TUS, 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 )oem.
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'AvLwviov KovaSpdrov, with the further (Dion Cass. xxxix. 35). The last time that his name
superscription, eLs TeoS Od'atpeslVras VdT'roO T'rv occurs is in B. c. 49, when he was in Cicero's neigh-'Potxaiwov v'rrdou vVxa, 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 Anwas contemporary with Sulla. (Anth. Pal. vii. nales of Pighius, he is erroneously called MAnum312.) 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. [QUADRAdoes 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 QUADRA'TUS, 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 orthoof 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 Tacinians, after the taking of Athens by Sulla. (Ani- tus, Pliny, and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, we
mnadv. in Anth. Graec. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 366.) To find it written variously Numsidius, Vinidius, and
these another conjecture might be added, namely, Unmmnidius. 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. ]. 95) where the
the time of Philippus. See below. [P. S.] present reading is Unmmsidius, there is the same
QUADRA/T US, ASI'NIUS, lived in the times variation in the manuscripts, but Bentley has shown
of Philippus I. and II., emperors of Rome (A. 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 Claubooks, in the Ionic dialect, called XAiuerpis, 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
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