QU1N1TILUS, M. AURELILS.
 

RABATHMOBA.
 

judgment, keen discrimination, and pure taste,

improved by extensive reading, deep reflection,

and long practice.   The diction is highly pol'sh-

ed and -- ary graceful.   The sections which pos¬

sess the greatest interest for general readers are

those chapters in the first book which relate to

elementary education, and  the commencement

of the tenth book, which furnishes  us  with a

compressed  but spirited history of Greek and

Roman literature.   There are also extant one

hundred and sixty-four declamations under the

name of Quintilian,  nineteen of considerable

length; the  remaining one hundred  and forty-

five, which form  the  concluding portion only

of a collection which originally extended  to

three hundred and eighty-eight pieces, are mere

skeletons or fragments.  No one believes these

to be the genuine productions of Quintilian, and

tew suppose that they proceeded from any one

individual.   They apparently belong not only to

different persons,  but to different  periods, and

neither in  style nor in substance do they offer

any thing  which is either attractive or useful.

Some scholars suppose that the anonymous Di-

nlogus de Oiatoribus, usually printed among the

works of Tacitus, ought to be assigned to Quin¬

tilian.  The best editions of Quintilian  are by

Burmann,  2 vols. 4to, Lug. Bat., 1720 ; by Ges-

ner,4to, Gott ,1738; and by Spalding and Zumpt,

6 vols. 8vo, Lips.,  1798-1829.

   Quintillus, M. Aurelius, the brother of the

Emperor M  Aurelius Claudius, was elevated to

the throne by the  troops whom he commanded

at Aquileia  in A.D. 270.  But as  the army at

Sirmium, where Claudius died, had proclaimed

Aurelian emperor, Quintillus put an  end to his

own life, seeing himself deserted by bis own

soldiers, to whom the rigor of his discipline had

given offence.

   T. Quintius CapitolInus Barbatus,  a cele¬

brated general in the early history of the repub¬

lic, and equally distinguished in  the internal

history of the state   He frequently acted as

mediator between the patricians and plebeians,

with both of whom he was held in the  highest

esteem.  He was six times consul, namely, in

B.C. 471, 468,  465, 446,  443, 439.   Several of

his descendants held the consulship, but none

of these require  mention  except  T. Quintius

Pennus Capitolinus Crispinds, who was con¬

sul 208, and was  defeated by Hannibal

   Qu jjtus,  an eminent physician at Rome in

the  former  half, of  the second century after

Jhjist.  He was so much superior to his med¬

ical colleagues that they  grew jealous of his

-eminence, and formed a sort of coalition against

aim, and forced him to quit the city by charg¬

ing him with killing his patients.   He died about

A.D. 148.

   Quintus Curtius.  Vid. Curtius.

   Quintus Smyrn^eus (Kblvrog Suvpvaiog), com¬

monly called Quintus Calaber, from the cir-

iumstance that the first copy through which his

poem became known was found  in a convent at

Otianto in Calabria.   He was the author of an

epic poem in  fourteen books,  entitled rd peB'

'Opiipov, or irapaXeiiropeva 'Opnpa  Scarcely any

thing is known of his personal history  ; but it

appears most probable that he lived toward the

end of the  fourth century after Christ.  The

matters treated of in his poem  are  the events

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ofthe Trojan war from the death of Hector to

the return of the Greeks.   In phraseology, sim¬

iles, and other technicalities, Quintus  closely

copied Homer.   The materials for his poem he

found in the works of the eailier poets of the

epic cycle.  But not a single poetical idea of

his own seems ever to have inspired him.  His

gods and heroes are alike devoid of all charac¬

ter ; every thing like pathos or moral interest

was quite beyond his powers.   With respect tc

chronology, his poem is as punctual as a diary.

His style, however, is clear, and marked on the

whole by purity and good taste, without any

bombast or exaggeration.  There  can be little

doubt that his work is nothing more than an am¬

plification or remodelling of the poems of Arc-

tinus and Lesches   He appears to have also

made diligent use of Apollonius.  The best edi¬

tion is by Tyehsen, Strasburg, 1807: [it is also

contained in the Poeta Epici Graci Minoscs, in

Didot's  Bibliotheca Graeca, Paris, 1840 ]

  Quirinalis Mons.   Vid. Roma.

  Quirinus, a  Sabine word,  perhaps  derived

from quiris, a lance  or spear   It occurs first

of all as the name of Romulus, after he had

been raised to the rank of a divinity ;  and the

festival  celebrated  in his honor  bore the name

of Quirinalia.  It is also used as a surname of

Mars, Janus, and even of Augustus.

  Quirinus, P. Sulpicius, was a native of Lanu

vium, and of obscure origin, but was raised to

the highest honors by Augustus.  He was con¬

sul B C. 12, and subsequently carried on war

against  some of the robber tribes dwelling in

the mountains  of Cilicia.   In B.C. 1,  Augus¬

tus appointed him to direct the counsels of his

grandson C. Caasar, then in Armenia.  Some

years afterward, but not before A.D. 5, he was

appointed governor of Syria, and while in thia

office he took a census of the Jewish peopla

This is  the statement of Josephus, and appears

to be at variance with that of Luke, who speaks

as if the census or enrollment of Cyrenius (i. e.,

Quirinus) was made at the time of the birth of

Christ.   Quirinus had been married to ^Emilia

Lepida, whom  he  divorced : but in A.D. 20,

twenty  years after the divorce, he brought an

accusation against  her.  The conduct of Quiri¬

nus met with general disapprobation as h irsli

and revengeful.  He died in A D. 2L, and was

honored with a public funeral

   Quiza (Koii'fa : now Giza, near Or an), a mu¬

nicipium on the coast of Mauretania Caesarien

sis, in Northern Africa, forty Roman miles west

of Arsenana.

                     R.

   Raamses otRameses (LXX. 'Papeaaij), a city

of Lower Egypt, built as a treasure city by the

captive Israelites under the oppression of the

Pharaoh "who  knew not Joseph"  (Exod, i,

11), and usually identified with  Heroofolis.

   Raeathmoba ('PaBa8pdBa,i e , Rabbath-Moab

in the Old Testament; also called Rabbah, Ar,

Ar.-Moab, and afterward Areopolis . now Rab¬

bah), the ancient capital ofthe Moabites, lay in

a fertile jilair on the eastern  side of the Dead

Sea, and.souti  of the River Arnon, in the dis¬

trict of Moabitis in Arabia Petraea, or,  accord.

ing to the latter division,  of the pravincf.i. .w

Palaestina Tertia.