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

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, urban prefect of Rome, pleads for traditional cult practices.

* 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 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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Antonia ( gens ) | Quintus Antonius Balbus ( c. 82-83 BC )

Quintus Ennius ( c. 239 – c. 169 BC ) was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry.

The main literary sources for Servius ' life and achievements are the Roman historian Livy ( 59 BC – AD 17 ), his near contemporary Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch ( c. 46 – 120 AD ); their own sources included works by Quintus Fabius Pictor, Diocles of Peparethus and Quintus Ennius.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 AD ), was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

* Metellus Scipio ( Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Cornelianus Scipio Nasica ) killed at the battle of Thapsus while his forces attempt to surrender ( b. c. 100 BC or 98 BC )

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, pontifex maximus and general ( b. c. 130 BC or 127 BC )

* Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus ( b. c. 210 BC )

He was the first of six successive Senators named Lucius Sergius Paullus, of Antioch, Pisidia, including one Consul Suffect in 94 and another Consul in 168, the last of whom was Lucius Sergius Paullus, Senator, father of Sergia Paulla, who married Quintus Anicius Faustus, Legate of Numidia and Consul in 198, and had Quintus Anicius Faustus Paulinus, Legate of Moesia Inferior between 229 and 230 or c. 230 to 232.

Quintus Sertorius ( c. 126 BC – 73 BC ) was a Roman statesman and general, born in Nursia, in Sabine territory.

Quintus Fabius Pictor ( flourished c. 200 BC, some sources give his birth as possibly in 254 BC ) was one of the earliest Roman historians and considered the first of the annalists.

Quintus Asconius Pedianus ( c. 9 BC-c. AD 76 ), Roman grammarian and historian, was probably a native of Patavium ( Padua ).

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus ( c. 210 BC – 116 BC / 115 BC ) was a Praetor ( army commander ) in 148 BC, Consul in 143 BC, Proconsul of Hispania Citerior in 142 BC and Censor in 131 BC.

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ( c. 130 BC – 63 BC ) was a pro-Sullan politician and general who was Roman consul in 80 BC.

* Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur, ( c. 159-88 BC ), consul 117 BC

Massimo is the name of a Roman princely family of great age ; which by its own tradition descends from the ancient Maximi of republican Rome and from Quintus Fabius Maximus ( c. 275 BC – 203 BC ), called Cunctator ( the Delayer ).