Greek and Roman Antiquities

• Quadragesima The fortieth part of the imported goods, or 2 1/2 per cent., was the amount of the portori
• Quadrantal or AMPHORA QUADRANTAL, or AMPHORA only, was the principal Roman measure of capacity for fl
• Quadruplator a professional accuser in cases involving a pecuniary penalty (Plaut. Pers. 1.2, 18; Cic.
• Quaestor the name of a class of Roman officers. The origin of the quaestorship is somewhat uncertai
• Quanti minoris minoris or AESTIMATORIA ACTIO. A seller of a thing was not liable to the buyer by the rule
• Quartarius a Roman measure of capacity, one-fourth of the sextarius, and consequently a little less t
• Quinquagesima A tax of the fiftieth part, or 2 per cent., upon the value of all slaves who were sold; in
• Quinquatrus or QUINQUATRIA (neut. plur.), a festival which was celebrated on the 19th of March. The wo
• Quinquennalia were games instituted by Nero A.D. 60, in imitation of the Greek festivals, and celebrated
• Quinqueviri or five commissioners, were frequently appointed under the Republic as extraordinary magis
• Quirinalia a festival sacred to Quirinus, which was celebrated on the 17th of February, on which day
• Quorum bonorum bonorum, INTERDICTUM. The object of this interdict was to give a person who had a primâ--f