Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Sertorius Severus

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Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Sertorius Severus was a

senator active during the second century AD. He was suffect consul in absentia for the nundinium of May to June 118 as the colleague of the emperor Hadrian.[1] He is more frequently known by his shorter name, Gaius Ummidius Quadratus; his full name was known only after a missing piece to an inscription from Tomis was found.[2]

Family origins

The

Rupilia Faustina".[5]

Life

Pliny the Younger offers the earliest mention of Quadratus.

Gaius Cassius
.

We know few details about Quadratus until he acceded to the consulate in 118. However, that he was associated with emperor Hadrian indicates he was a member of the inner circle. Once he stepped down from the consulate, Quadratus was appointed governor of

Moesia Inferior; he held this office from 118 to 122.[7] The next office he is recorded as holding was one of the apices of a successful consular career, proconsular governor of Africa.[8] A number of inscriptions from that province attest that Quadratus assisted several persons in becoming Roman citizens.[9]

The Historia Augusta mentions Quadratus in a list of three men—the other two being Lucius Catilius Severus and Marcius Turbo—whom the emperor Hadrian treated harshly.[10] Syme admits it is unclear what these men did, or were thought to have done, to incur Hadrian's displeasure.[11]

Family

There is no direct authority for the name of Quadratus' wife, although Ronald Syme suggests on onomastic evidence, that she might have been named Annia, a daughter of Marcus Annius Verus.[12] He is known to have had at least one son, Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Annianus Verus, consul suffectus in an uncertain year, perhaps AD 146;[13][14] Syme provides the information that he married his son to Annia Cornificia Faustina, sister of emperor Marcus Aurelius. The two provided Quadratus with a grandson, Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus, consul ordinarius in 167.[15]

References

  1. ^ Werner Eck, Peter Weiß, "Hadrianische Konsuln. Neue Zeugnisse aus Militärdiplomen", Chiron, 32 (2002), p. 480
  2. ^ CIL III, 7539
  3. ^ The addressee of Epistulae, V.1
  4. ^ Syme, "Ummidius Quadratus, Capax Imperii", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 83 (1979), p. 292
  5. ^ Birley, Marcus Aurelius, revised edition (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 34
  6. ^ Pliny, Epistulae, VII.24
  7. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 13 (1983), pp. 150-156
  8. ^ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 174f
  9. Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte
    , 17 (1968), p. 92
  10. ^ Hadrian, 15.7
  11. ^ Syme, "The Ummidii", p. 95
  12. ^ Syme, "Ummidius Quadratus", p. 308
  13. ^ Julius Capitolinus, "The Life of Marcus Aurelius", 7.
  14. ^ Syme, "The Ummidii", pp. 98 ff.
  15. ^ Syme, "The Ummidii", p. 97
Political offices
Preceded by
Bellicius Tebanianus
Suffect Consul of the Roman Empire
118
with Hadrian
II 		Succeeded by
Titus Sabinius Barbarus
as suffecti
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