Quies
the personification of tranquillity, was worshipped as a divinity by the Romans. A chapel dedicated to her stood on the via Lavicana, probably a pleasant resting-place for the weary traveller; another sanctuary of her was outside the porta Collina. (Liv. 4.41; August. De Civ. Dei, 4.16, 21.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.