plebeian, and of very little note. No persons of this name are mentioned at Rome till
towards the end of the republic, when we read of L. Ninnius Quadratus, a warm friend of
Cicero's [QUADRATUS]. But as early as the second Punic war there was
a noble house of this name at Capua, and the Ninnii Celeres are mentioned among the noble and
wealthy families with whom Hannibal resided during his stay in that city. (