Quadrātus
1.
An early defender of the Christian religion, whose work (now lost) he dedicated to the
emperor Hadrian in the year A.D. 126. Quadratus was in early life a resident of Asia Minor,
and afterwards a bishop of the Church at Athens, but of the details of his career little is
known.
2.
Asinius. An author who wrote in Greek two historical works, one a
history of Rome (
Χιλιετηρίς) in the Ionic dialect, treating
of the city from its foundation to the year A.D. 248, in which the Ludi Saeculares were
celebrated; and a history of Parthia. Quadratus lived during the reigns of the emperors
Philippus I. and Philippus II. (A.D. 244- 249).
3.
Lucius Ninnius, a tribune of the plebs in B.C. 58, when he
strongly sided with Cicero against his own colleague P. Clodius
Pulcher (q.v.).