[♦]Quintus, or Quinctius, one of the names of Cincinnatus. Persius, bk. 1, li. 73.——Pedius, a painter. See: [Pedius].
[♦] Out of alphabetical order in the text.
Quintus Veranius, a governor of Cappadocia.——Cicero, the brother of Cicero.——Catulus, a Roman consul.——A friend of Cæsar.
Quirinalia, festivals in honour of Romulus, surnamed Quirinus, celebrated on the 13th of the calends of March.
Quirinālis, a hill at Rome, originally called Agonius, and afterwards Collinus. The name of Quirinalis is obtained from the inhabitants of Cures, who settled there under their king Tatius. It was also called Cabalinus, from two marble statues of a horse, one of which was the work of Phidias, and the other of Praxiteles. Livy, bk. 1, ch. 44.—Ovid, Fasti, li. 375; Metamorphoses, bk. 14, li. 843.——One of the gates of Rome near mount Quirinalis.
Quirīnus, a surname of Mars among the Romans. This name was also given to Romulus when he had been made a god by his superstitious subjects. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 2, li. 475.——Also a surname of the god Janus.——Sulpitius, a Roman consul, born at Lanuvium. Though descended of an obscure family, he was raised to the greatest honours by Augustus. He was appointed governor of Syria, and was afterwards made preceptor to Caius the grandson of the emperor. He married Æmilia Lepida the granddaughter of Sylla and Pompey, but some time after he shamefully repudiated her. He died A.D. 22. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 3, &c.
Quirītes, a name given to the Roman citizens, because they admitted into their city the Sabines, who inhabited the town of Cures, and who on that account were called Quirites. After this union, the two nations were indiscriminately and promiscuously called by that name. It is, however, to be observed that the word was confined to Rome, and not used in the armies, as we find some of the generals applying it only to such of their soldiers as they dismissed or disgraced. Even some of the emperors appeased a sedition, by calling their rebellious soldiers by the degrading appellation of Quirites. Suetonius, Cæsar, ch. 170.—Lampridius, bk. 53.—Lucan, bk. 5, li. 558.—Horace, bk. 4, ode 14, li. 1.—Varro, de Lingua Latina, bk. 4.—Livy, bk. 1, ch. 13.—Ovid, Fasti, bk. 2, li. 479.
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Rabirius Caius, a Roman knight, who lent an immense sum of money to Ptolemy Auletes king of Egypt. The monarch afterwards not only refused to repay him, but even confined him, and endangered his life. Rabirius escaped from Egypt with difficulty, but at his return to Rome, he was accused by the senate of having lent money to an African prince, for unlawful purposes. He was ably defended by Cicero, and acquitted with difficulty. Cicero, For Rabirius.——A Latin poet in the age of Augustus, who wrote, besides satires and epigrams, a poem on the victory which the emperor had gained over Antony at Actium. Seneca has compared him to Virgil for elegance and majesty, but Quintilian is not so favourable to his poetry.——An architect in the reign of Domitian, who built a celebrated palace for the emperor, of which the ruins are still seen at Rome.