Gaius Ummidius quadratus

Gaius Ummidius Quadratus S ( everus ?) Sertorius (* approx. 83/84) was a Roman politician and senator of the 2nd century AD.

Ummidius Quadratus was a great-grandson of Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus , suffect consul around 40, and grandson of Ummidia Quadratilla . In Rome he lived in the former house of Gaius Cassius Longinus , which he inherited from his grandmother. Around 106/107 together with Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator as egregium par (“a brilliant pair of fencers”) by Pliny , who heard both of them speak as young men in Rome. Ummidius Quadratus belonged to the closest circle around Emperor Hadrian . He also worked as a lawyer.

Soon after 107 the adulescens singularis (“exceptionally young man”), as Pliny dubbed him in full admiration , must have been accepted into the Senate as quaestor because of his age . In the following years he went through an official career that probably often took him away from Rome. In 118 Ummidius Quadratus was the indirect successor of Fuscus Salinator as a suffect consul and a colleague of the emperor who was absent. Perhaps he administered the province of Africa as proconsul , his term of office will then be in the first half of the 130s. Ummidius Quadratus appeared for the last time in the final phase of Hadrian's reign when he fell out of favor with the emperor as part of the succession plan. Whether he survived the "persecution" by Hadrian remains uncertain.

literature

Gerhard Winkler: Ummidius 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 1051.
Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR )² V 907

Remarks

↑ Since the discovery of a new fragment of a bilingual inscription from Tomis ( CIL 3, 7539 ) it is known that Ummidius Quadratus had two other names. The widely accepted and most plausible variant Severus Sertorius comes from Syme, Ummidius Quadratus , p. 291ff. Accordingly, Ummdius Quadratus would be the son of a Sertorius Severus. Anders G. Molisani, Due note senatorie , in: EOS I, p. 495f and Licordari, Ascesa al senato , p. 26, suggesting Sallustius Severus .
↑ Pliny, Letters 6: 1.
↑ Pliny, Letters 7,24,3.
↑ Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian. Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 57.
↑ Historia Augusta , Hadrianus 15.7.

personal data
SURNAME	Ummidius quadratus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Quadratus, Gaius Ummidius; Ummidius quadratus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	roman consul suffect 118
DATE OF BIRTH	at 83
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century

[1] Since the discovery of a new fragment of a bilingual inscription from Tomis ( CIL 3, 7539 ) it is known that Ummidius Quadratus had two other names. The widely accepted and most plausible variant Severus Sertorius comes from Syme, Ummidius Quadratus , p. 291ff. Accordingly, Ummdius Quadratus would be the son of a Sertorius Severus. Anders G. Molisani, Due note senatorie , in: EOS I, p. 495f and Licordari, Ascesa al senato , p. 26, suggesting Sallustius Severus .

[2] Pliny, Letters 6: 1.

[3] Pliny, Letters 7,24,3.

[4] Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian. Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 57.

[5] Historia Augusta , Hadrianus 15.7.