The Roman commanders, the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and the consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, hindered Roman coordination and so the Cimbri succeeded in first defeating the legate Marcus Aurelius Scaurus and later inflicted a devastating defeat on Caepio and Maximus at the Battle of Arausio.

They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".

Ammianus Marcellinus in history, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus in oratory, and Ausonius and Rutilius Claudius Namatianus in poetry all wrote with great talent.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman consul and intellectual

* C. 390 – 401 – Priestess of Bacchus: Late Antiquity ivory diptych, documents the relationship of the senators Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and Virius Nicomachus Flavianus.

* Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, Roman politician

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus becomes urban prefect of Rome.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus becomes proconsul of Africa, and is made a member of the pontifical college.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman consul and intellectual ( d. 402 )

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman consul and pagan ( approximate date )

He became a popular emperor, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus delivered a panegyric on Maximus ' virtues.

* Imperator Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus ( Elagabalus ) and Quintus Tineius Sacerdos become Roman Consuls.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, c. 340 – c.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, consul in 446

* Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, consul in 485

However, his father died when Boethius was young, and he was adopted by another patrician, Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus.

* portions of eight speeches of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

He not only refused to restore Victory to the senate-house, but extinguished the Sacred fire of the Vestals and vacated their temple: the senatorial protest was expressed in a letter by Quintus Aurelius Symmachus to the Western and Eastern emperors.

He himself indicates that he was intimately acquainted with the circle of the great orator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who scouted Stilicho's compact with the Goths, and who led the Roman senate to support the pretenders Eugenius and Attalus, in the hope of reinstating the gods whom Emperor Julian had failed to save.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus ( 373-374 )

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus ( c. 345 – 402 ) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters.

* Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus, his son, who edited Aurelius ' letters for publication

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* Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus, son of the previous

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At 29, he took over more of the reins of power, though he continued to rule through a cabal consisting of Marcia, his new chamberlain Eclectus, and the new praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, who about this time also had many Christians freed from working in the mines in Sardinia.

The plot was carried out by the Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, Commodus ' mistress Marcia, and his chamberlain Eclectus.

Quintus Naevius Cordus Sutorius Macro ( 21 BC-38 AD ) was a prefect of the Praetorian Guard, from 31 until 38, serving under the Roman Emperors Tiberius and Caligula.

Publius Ostorius Scapula was probably the son of Quintus Ostorius Scapula, the first joint commander of the Praetorian guard appointed by Augustus and later prefect of Egypt.

The prefect Sejanus orders the Roman Quintus Arrius to take warships to combat the pirates.

In the year 192 AD he was recruited by several senators, led by Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, to assassinate the emperor.

He rejected the offer, however, because of ill-health and his children, but more likely to leave the position to Quintus Junius Blaesus, uncle of Lucius Aelius Sejanus the powerful pretorian prefect.

Sulla's prefect Quintus Lucretius Ofella conducted the siege, throttling the town with a ring of rapidly constructed earth and tuff

Quintus Marcius Turbo was prefect of the Praetorian Guard and a close friend and military advisor to both emperor Trajan and Hadrian during the early 2nd century.

During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

Seven legions were sent from Rome, led by Vespasian's brother-in-law Quintus Petillius Cerialis.

Quintus Ennius wrote a historical epic, the Annals ( soon after 200 BC ), describing Roman history from the founding of Rome to his own time.

Surprisingly this is very close to the calculation of the founding given by Rome's first native historical writer, Quintus Fabius Pictor, who wrote that Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, 747 BC ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Book 1, ch.

The Roman consul Quintus Publilius Filo recaptured Neapolis by 326 BC and allowed it to remain a Greek city with some autonomy as a civitas foederata while strongly aligned with Rome.

* In Rome, the tribune Quintus Opimius speaks out against Sullan restrictions on the tribunate, in orations noted for sarcasm against conservatives.

* Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman consul and leader of the democratic party, is defeated by Quintus Lutatius Catulus outside Rome.

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus conquers the Balearic Islands for Rome, for which he earns the cognomen " Balearicus.

* The Roman historian Quintus Fabius Pictor is sent to Delphi in Greece to consult the Oracle for advice about what Rome should do after its defeat in the Battle of Cannae.

The patrician senator Quintus Fabius Pictor used Diocles ' as a source for his own history of Rome, written around the time of Rome's war with Hannibal and probably intended for circulation among Rome's Greek-speaking allies.

In 41 BC, Mark Antony, one of the triumvirs who ruled Rome in the power vacuum following Caesar's death, sent his intimate friend Quintus Dellius to Egypt to summon Cleopatra to Tarsus to meet Antony and answer questions about her loyalty.

* Consul Quintus Fabius Maximus, allied with the Aedui, defeated the Arverni and Allobroges in Transalpine Gaul, thus establishing the province for Rome.

* Lex Voconia ( The Voconian Law ) is introduced in Rome by the tribune, Quintus Voconius Saxa, with the support of Cato the Elder.

Quintus Pompeius addressed the Senate and said that he " was a neighbour of Tiberius, and therefore knew that Eudemus of Pergamum had presented Tiberius with a royal diadem and a purple robe, believing that he was going to be king in Rome.

* Quintus Fabius Ambustus and two other Fabii are sent as ambassadors by Rome to a wandering tribe of Celts ( whom the Romans call Gauls ), under Brennus, who are advancing down the Tiber while the Celtic army is besieging Clusium.

After Quintus Fabius ' group become involved in a skirmish with the Gauls and kill one of the Gauls ' leaders, the offended Gauls demand that Rome surrender the Fabii members to them.

The author of the abridged life of Cato which is commonly considered as the work of Cornelius Nepos, asserts that Cato, after his return from Africa, put in at Sardinia, and brought the poet Quintus Ennius in his own ship from the island to Italy ; but Sardinia was rather out of the line of the trip to Rome, and it is more likely that the first contact of Ennius and Cato happened at a later date, when the latter was Praetor in Sardinia.

Many Roman refugees and deserters joined him, and with these and his Hispanian volunteers he completely defeated several of Sulla's generals ( Fufidius, Domitius Calvinus and to some less-direct extent Thoranius ) and drove Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, who had been specifically sent against him from Rome, out of Lusitania, or Hispania Ulterior as the Romans called it at the time.

Rome sent Quintus Caecilius Metellus with three legions to the island.

In 38 BC a legatus of Triumvir Mark Antony, Publius Ventidius Bassus, after defeating the invasion of Syria by Quintus Labienus and Pacorus I, attacked Antiochus and his kingdom, who had rebelled from Rome and supported Parthia in the war.

Rome itself was protected by a goddess whose name was to be kept ritually secret on pain of death ( for a supposed case, see Quintus Valerius Soranus ).

* Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, a historian of the early 1st century BC, he wrote a history of Rome from the sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC.