A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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o. M., consul with Commodus in A. D. 177 Ilippocr. " Apl4or." iii. praef. vol. xvii. pt. ii. p.
(Fasti). 562). lie appears to have commented on the
QUI'NTIUS. i. 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
mnanded the Roman fleet at Tarentum in B. C. 210, always sound (Coomment. in Hiippocr. "' 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. Q UINTIUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. 74, is Comment. in -Iippocr. " Epid. VI." iv. 9, vol.
characterised by Cicero as a man well fitted to xvii. pt. ii. p. 151; Pallad. Comment. in Hipspeak in public assemblies (Cic. Brut. 62). He pocr. " Epmd. VI." ap. Dietz, Sclhol. in Hippocr. et
distinguished himself by his violent opposition to Gal. vol. ii. p. 113). He is mentioned in several
the constitution of Sulla, and endeavoured to re- other passages of Galen's writings, and also by
gain for the tribunes the power of which they had Aetius (i. 1, p. 39); and he is probably the phybeen deprived. The unpopularity excited against sician quoted by Oribasius (Synops. ad Eustath. 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 AuSulla'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 flame works, ATAO: AAENA Eli., KOINTO: AAE_
of popular indignation to such a height, that Ju- ETIOIEI, 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'AAhEavapos, but of'AAEs4s.
Sulla's laws. The consul Lucullus opposed him (Bracci, fol. 8; Sillig, Cat. Art. 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 (Kd'V0Ss tuVp.
cracy made use of the powerful persuasion of money va-os), commonly called QUINTUS CALABER, from
to keep him quiet. (Plut. Lucull. 5; Sallust, the circumstance that the first copy through which
Ilist. 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 Trerr. 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 -m tAeO' "OQnpov, or 7rapaIn B. C. 67 Quintius was praetor, in which year Aelvro.iusva'Ou1.pe. Scarcely any thing is known
he took his revenge upon his old enemy Leucullus, 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 early
Quintus; Sall. ap. Sclol. in Cic. de Leg. Man. p. youth he made trial of his poetic powers, while en441, 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 half of the second century after Christ. of in his poem are the events of the Trojan war
He was a pupil of Marinus (Galen, Comment. in from the death of I-ector to the return of the
Hippocr. "De Nat. Honz." ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136), Greeks. It begins rather abruptly with a descripand not his tutor, as some modern wvriters 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 Anatomn. 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. III." 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, Neoptolejealous 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 unsucself, either on this or any other medical subject (id. cessful attempt of the Greeks to carry Ilium by
Conzenent. in Hippocr. "De Nat. Hoen." i. 25, ii. 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. Commnent. in the fourteenth, the rejoicing of the Greeks, —the