the name of several persons under the early Roman emperors. There is considerable
discrepancy in the orthography of the name. Josephus writes it Numidius, which is the form
that Glandorp (Onomast. p. 631) hats adopted; while in the different
editions of Tacitus, Pliny, and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae, we find it written
variously Numidius, Vinidius, and Ummidius. The
latter, which occurs in some of the best manuscripts, is supported by the authority of
inscriptions, and is evidently the correct form. In the passage of Horace (Sat. 1.1. 95) where the present reading is Ummidius, there is the
same variation in the manuscripts, but Bentley has shown that the true reading is
Ummidius.
1. FELIX, p. 143a.] The other
circumstance is his disagreement with Domitius Corbulo, who had been sent into the East to
conduct the war against the Parthians. His name occurs on one of the coins of Antioch. (B. J. 2.12. ยงยง 5, 6 ;
Titus, but it appears from an inscription that this is a mistake, and that his real
praenomen was Caius. (Orelli, Inscr. 3665.) We
learn from the same inscription that his full name was C. Ummidius Durmius Quadratus, and
that he had been previously the legatus of Caligula in Lusitania. The Ummidia Quadratilla,
whose death in the reign of Trajan is mentioned by Pliny [QUADRATILLA], was in all probability a sister of the above. She could hardly have been
a daughter, as some modern writers have supposed, since she had a grandson of the age of
twenty-four and upwards at the time of her death [see below, No. 2], and it is not probable
that Ummidius, who died in
2. QUADRATILLA.] In the estate thus bequeathed to him was the house formerly inhabited by
the celebrated jurist Cassius Longinus. He married at the age of twenty-four, in the
life-time of his grandmother, but lost his wife soon after their marriage. (Ep. 6.29, 9.13), in the latter of
which Pliny gives an account of the celebrated attack which he made upon Publicius Certus in
the senate, in the reign of Nerva,
3. Hadr. 15.) He may have been a son of No. 2, who
probably married again after the time that Pliny's letter was written. It seems to have been
this Quadratus who married the sister of Antoninus Pius.
4. M. Aurel. 7, where he is in some editions erroneously called
Mummius Quadratus.) He was consul in A. D. 167, with M. Aurelius Verus.
5. Commod. 4;