2. M., consul with Commodus in a. d. 177
(Fasti).
QUFNTIUS. 1. D. QuiNTius, a man of ob-
scure birth, but of great military reputation, com-
inanded the Roman fleet at Tarentura in B. c. 210,
and was slain in a naval engagement in that year.
(Liv. xxvi. 39.)
2. P. QuiNTius, the person whom Cicero de-
fended in B. c. 81. The oration in his behalf is
still extant.
3. L. QuiNTius, tribune of the plebs, b. c. 74, is
characterised by Cicero as a man well fitted to
speak in public assemblies (Cic. Brut. 62). He
distinguished himself by his violent opposition to
the constitution of Sulla, and endeavoured to re-
gain for the tribunes the power of which they had
been deprived. The unpopularity excited against
the judices by the general belief that they had
been bribed by Cluentius to condemn Oppianicus,
was of service to Quintius in attacking another of
Sulla's measures, by which the judices were taken
exclusively from the senatorial order. Quintius
warmly espoused the cause of Oppianicus, con-
stantly asserted his innocence, and raised the flame
of popular indignation to such a height, that Ju-
nius, who had presided at the trial, was obliged to
retire from public life. L. Quintius, however, was
not strong enough to obtain the repeal of any of
Sulla's laws. The consul LucuUus opposed him
vigorously in public, and induced him, by per-
suasion in private, says Plutarch, to abandon his
attempts. It is not improbable that the aristo-
cracy made use of the powerful persuasion of money
to keep him quiet. (Plut. Lucull. 5 ; Sallust,
Hid. p. 173, ed. Orelli ; Pseudo-Ascon. vi Div.
in Cuecil. p. 103, in Act. i. in Verr. pp. 127, 141,
ed. Orelli ; Cic. pro Cluent. 27—29, 37, 39.)
In B. c. 67 Quintius was praetor, in which year
he took his revenge upon his old enemy LucuUus,
by inducing the senate to send him a successor in
his province, although he had, according to a
statement of Sallust, received money from LucuUus
to prevent the appointment of a successor. (Plut.
Lucull. 33, where he is erroneously called L.
Quititus ; Sail. ap. Schol. in Cic. de Leg. Mail. p.
441, ed. Orelli.)
QUINTUS, an eminent physician at Rome, in
the former half of the second century after Christ.
He was a pupil of Marinus (Galen, Comment, in
Hippocr. "De Nat. Hom." ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136),
and not his tutor., as some modern writers assert.
He was tutor to Lycus (id. ibid.) and Satyrus (id.
ihid.., De Anatom. Admin, i. 1, 2, vol. ii. pp. 217,
225, De Antid. i. 14, vol. xiv. p. 71 ), and Iphicia-
nus (id. Comment, in Hippocr. " Epid. IH.'" i. 29,
vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 575). Some persons say he
was also one of the tutors of Galen himself, but
this is probably an error. He was so much su-
perior to Jiis medical colleagues that they grew
jealous of his eminence, and formed a sort of
coalition against him, and forced him to quit the
city by charging him with killing his patients (id.
De Praenot. ad Epig. c. 1, vol. xiv. p. 602). He
died about the year 148 (id. De Anat. Admin, i.
2, vol. ii. p. 225). He was particularly celebrated
for his knowledge of anatomy (id. De Libris Fro-
priis, c. 2, vol. xix. p. 22), but wrote nothing him-
self, either on this or any other medical subject (id.
Comment, in Hippocr. " De Nat. Hom."" i. 25, ii. 6,
vol. xy. pp. 68, 136) ; his pupil Lycus professing
to deliver his master's opinions (id. Comment, in Hippocr. "Aphor." iii. praef. vol. xvii. pt. ii. p.
562). He appears to have commented on the
"Aphorisms" and the "Epidemics" of Hippocrates^
but Galen says that his explanations were not
always sound {Comment, in Hippocr. " Epid. /."
i. praef. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 6, De Ord. Lihror. suor.
vol. xix. p. 57). Several of his sayings have been
preserved, which show more rudeness than wit, and
(as Galen says) are more suitable to a jester than
a physician {De Sanit. Tu. iii. 13, vol. vi. p. 228,
Comment, in Hippocr. "Epid. VI." iv. 9, vol.
xvii. pt. ii. p. 151 ; Pallad. Comment, in Hip-
pocr. " Epid. F/." ap. Dietz, Schol. iji Llippoer. el
Gal. vol. ii. p. 113). He is mentioned in several
other passages of Galen's writings, and also by
Aetius (i. 1, p. 39) ; and he is probably the phy-
sician quoted by Oribasius {Synops. ad Eustuth. iii.
p. 56). [W.A.G.]
QUINTUS, a gem-engraver, and his brother
Aulas, flourished probably in the time of Au-
gustus. There are several works of Aulus extant,
but only a fragment of one by Quintus. From
the manner in which their names appear on their
works, ATA02 AAEEA EH., K0INT02 AAEH
EnOIEI, Winckelmann and Sillig conclude that
their father's name was Alexander ; but Osann
endeavours to prove that the second word stands
for the genitive, not of 'AAe^arSpos, but of 'AAe^ay.
(Bracci, fol. 8 ; Sillig, Cat. Art. s. v. ; Osann, in
the Kunstblatt, 1830, p. 336.) [P. S.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS. [Curtius.]
QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS (KJiVros Sjuup-
valos), commonly called Quintus Calaber, from
the circumstance that the first copy through which
his poem became known was found in a convent
at Otianto in Calabria, was the author of a poem
in 14 books, entitled rci /xefl' "OfjLTjpoD, or irapa-
Acnro/xeva 'O^Tjpoi. Scarcely any thing is known
of his personal history ; but from the metrical and
poetic characteristics of his poem, as companid with
the school of Nonnus, it appears most probable that
he lived towards the end of the fourth century
after Christ. From a passage in his poem (xii.
308 — 313), it would seem that even in early
youth he made trial of his poetic powers, while en-
gaged in tending sheep near a temple of Artemis
in the territory of Smyrna. The matters treated
of in his poem are the events of the Trojan war
from the death of Hector to the return of the
Greeks. It begins rather abruptly with a descrip-
tion of the grief and consternation at the deatii of
Hector which reigned among the Trojans, and then
introduces Penthesileia, queen of the Amazons,
who comes to their aid. In the second book we
have the arrival, exploits, and death of Memnon ;
in the third, the death of Achilles. The fourth
and fifth books describe the funeral games in
honour of Achilles, the contest about his arms, and
the death of Ajax. In the sixth book, Neoptole-
mus is sent for by the Greeks, and Eurypylus
comes to the help of the Trojans. The seventh
and eighth books describe the arrival and exploits
of Neoptolemus ; the ninth contains the exploits
of Deiphobus, and the sending for Philoctetes by
the Greeks. The tenth, the death of Paris and
the suicide of Oenone, who had refused to heal
him. The eleventh book narrates the last unsuc-
cessful attempt of the Greeks to carry Ilium by
storm ; the twelfth and thirteenth describe the
capture of the city by means of the wooden horse ;
the fourteenth, the rejoicing of the Greeks, — the
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