Biography and Mythology

• Q. Ancharius Ancharius. 1. A senator, and of praetorian rank, was killed by Marius on the return of the
• Q. Ancharius Ancharius. 2. Tribune of the plebs in the consulship of Caesar and Bibulus, B. C. 59. He t
• Q. Aponius Aponius. was one of the commanders of the troops which revolted, in B. C. 46, from Treboni
• Q. Asconius Pedianus Asconius Pedianus, who holds the first place among the ancient commentators of Cicero, see
• Q. Atrius Atrius. was left on the coast in Britain to take care of the ships, B. C. 54. while Caesar
• Q. Caecilius Epirota Caecilius Epirota. a grammarian, born at Tusculum, was a freedman of T. Pomponius Atticus,
• Q. Cotius or Cotius Achilles Cotius or Cotius Achilles. surnamed ACHILLES on account of his bravery, accompanied, as a
• Q. Curtius Rufus Curtius Rufus. the Roman historian of Alexander the Great. Respecting his life and the tim
• Q. Dellius Dellius. a Roman eques, who seems to have lived as a negotiator in Asia, where in B. C. 44
• Q. Eclogius Eclogius. or EULO'GIUS. According to the commonly received text of Suetonius (Vitell. 1),
• Q. Horatius Flaccus Horatius Flaccus. was born on the 8th of December (vi. idus Decemb.), in the year B. C. 65
• Q. Laberius Durus Laberius Durus. a tribune of the soldiers in Caesar's army, fell in battle in the second i
• Q. Lepta Lepta. a native of Cales in Campania, and praefectus fabrûm to Cicero in Cilicia B. C. 51.
• Q. Lutatius Diodorus Lutatius Diodorus. received the Roman franchise from Sulla, through the influence of Q. Lu
• Q. Marcius and M. Marcius Marcius and M. Marcius. 4. Q. and M. MARCII, tribunes of the soldiers of the second legion
• Q. Ogulnius and Cn. Ogulnius Ogulnius and Cn. Ogulnius. 1. 2. Q. and Cn. OGULNII, tribunes of the plebs, B. C. 300, pro
• Q. Patisius Patisius. was sent by Cn. Domitius Calvinus into Cilicia in B. C. 48, in order to fetch au
• Q. Patulcius Patulcius. one of the accusers of Milc de Vi in B. C. 52 (Ascon. in Milon. p. 54, ed. Orel
• Q. Pleminius Pleminius. propraetor and legatus of Scipio Africanus, was sent in B. C. 205, against the
• Q. Salassus Salassus. a frater of the P. Curtius who was put to death in Spain, in B. C. 45, by order
• Q. Salvidienus Rufus Salvidienus Rufus. of equestrian rank, was of humble origin, and owed his elevation to the
• Q. Sertorius Sertorius (Σερτώριος) was the son of a reputable father, of Nursia, a Sabine village. His
• Q. Servaeus Servaeus. was appointed to the government of Commagene in the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 18,
• Q. Stertinius Stertinius. a physician at Rome in the first century after Christ, who, according to Pliny
• Q. Trabea Trabea. a Roman comic dramatist who occupies the eighth place in the canon of Volcatius Se
• Q. Velanius Velanius. a tribune of the soldiers, whom Caesar sent in B. C. 56 among the Veneti for the
• Q. Veranius Veranius. was appointed by Tiberius the Caesar's legatus or governor of Cappadocia, when t
• Q. Vettius Vettianus Vettius Vettianus. a Marsian, was a contemporary of Cicero, by whom he is mentioned among
• Quadratilla, Ummidia Ummidia. a wealthy Roman lady, who died in the reign of Trajan within a little of eighty y
• Quadratus Κοδράτος, (Euseb. H. E., Syncellus, and the Greek Menaea; or Κουαδρᾶτος, Euseb. Chron. p.
• Quadratus, Asinius Asinius. the author of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p.
• Quadratus, Asinius Asinius. lived in the times of Philippus I. and II., emperors of Rome (A. D. 244-249), and
• Quadratus, C. Antuis Aulus Julius C. Antuis Aulus Julius. consul A. D. 105, with Ti. Julius Candidus, in the reign of Trajan
• Quadratus, C. Volusenus C. Volusenus. a tribune of the soldiers in Caesar's army in Gaul, is described as "vir et
• Quadratus, Fannius Fannius. a contemporary of Horace, who speaks of him with contempt as a parasite ot Tigell
• Quadratus, L. Ninnius L. Ninnius. tribune of the plebs B. C. 58, distinguished himself by his opposition to the
• Quadratus, Ummidius Ummidius. the name of several persons under the early Roman emperors. There is considerabl
• Quadrifrons a surname of Janus. It is said that after the conquest of the Faliscans an image of Janus
• Quadrigarius, Q. Claudius Q. Claudius. a Roman historian who flourished about B. C. 100 (Vell. 2.9). Works Annales H
• Quartinus a friend of the emperor Alexander Severus, who, after the murder of that prince, was dismi
• Querquetulanae or Querquctultanae virae, nymphs presiding over the green oak forests, near the porta quer
• Quies the personification of tranquillity, was worshipped as a divinity by the Romans. A chapel
• Quietus, Avidius Avidius. a contemporary of the younger Pliny, had been a friend of Paetus Thrasea, and use
• Quietus, C. Fulvius C. Fulvius. included in the list of thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio [see AU
• Quietus, Cluvidienus Cluvidienus. was implicated in Piso's conspiracy against Nero, and was banished to one of
• Quietus, Q. Lusius Q. Lusius. was an independent Moorish chief, not belonging to the Roman province of Maurit
• Quintia Gens Gens. originally patrician, but subsequently plebeian also. The ancient and more correct f
• Quintianus, Afranius Afranius. a senator of dissolute iife, had been ridiculed by Nero in a poem, and in reveng
• Quintilia or QUINCTI'LIA GENS, patrician. This name occurs in the earliest legends of Roman history,
• Quintilianus, M. Fabius M. Fabius. the most celebrated of Roman rhetoricians, was a native of Calagurris (Calahorr
• Quintilianus, Nonius Nonius. 1. Sex. Nonius Quintilianus, L. F. L. N., was consul A. D. 8 with M. Furins Camill
• Quintilianus, Nonius Nonius. 2. Sex. Nonius Quintilianus, probably a son of the preceding, was consul suffectus
• Quintilius a gem-engraver, of unknown time. Two of his works are extant; the one representing Neptune
• Quintillus, M. Aurelius M. Aurelius. the brother of the emperor M. Aurelius Claudius Gothicus, was elevated to the
• Quintius 1. D. Quintius, a man of obscure birth, but of great military reputation, commanded the Ro
• Quintius 3. L. Quintius, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 74. is characterised by Cicero as a man well f
• Quintus an eminent physician at Rome, in the former half of the second century after Christ. He wa
• Quintus a gem-engraver, and his brother Aulus, flourished probably in the time of Augustus. There
• Quintus Smyrnaeus Smyrnaeus (Κόϊντος Σμυρναῖος), commonly called QUINTUS CALABER, from the circumstance that
• Quirinus according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus (2.48), a Sabine word, and perhaps to be derived f
• Quirinus, P. Sulpicius P. Sulpicius. 2. Consul B. C. 12 with M. Valerius Messalla. It would appear from his name