Ummidia Quadratilla
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Ummidia Quadratilla, was a wealthy Roman lady, who died in the reign of Trajan within a little of eighty years of age, leaving two-thirds (ex besse) of her fortune to her grandson and the other third to her granddaughter (Pliny Ep. vii. 24). Her grandson Quadratus was an intimate friend of Pliny the Younger, who praises her for fostering Quadratus' studies while keeping him untouched by her own luxurious lifestyle.
Quadratilla was probably a sister of Ummidius Caius Quadratus, the governor of Syria, who died in 60, and appears to be the same as the Quadratilla mentioned in the following inscription, discovered at Casinum in Campania: "Ummidia CF Quadratilla amphiheatrum et templum Casinatibus sua pecunia fecit." (Orelli, Inscr. No. 781.) It seems that the Ummidii came originally from Casinum. (Ummidia gens.)
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
