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Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus was born c.
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Gaius Quadratus
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His family, the Ummidii, were nobles from the Italian town of Casinum, Latium. Augustus died on August 19, and Quadratus was able to witness at close hand Rome"s first imperial succession, as the power passed to Augustus" adoptive son Tiberius. Career under Tiberius
Thereafter Quadratus advanced rapidly through the cursus honorum – the sequence of positions held by Roman senators – becoming curule aedile in 16 or 17 and praetor in 18.
He could have expected to hold the consulship in due course, but his only known office until 37, the year of Tiberius" death, was that of proconsul of Cyprus.
Ronald Syme speculates that he had somehow fallen from the Emperor"s favour. Governorship of Syria
The governor went to Samaria in 52 and suppressed the disturbance.
In fear of further disturbances, Quadratus hurried to Jerusalem. Finding the city peacefully celebrating the Feast of Passover, he returned to Antioch (Josephus, Ant 2061-2062.
BJ 2123-2126; Zonaras, 615).
Cumanus was deposed and was succeeded by Felix, appointed at the request of the high priest, Jonathan, whom also Quadratus had sent to Rome. The version of Tacitus (Annals 1245, 54) can not be reconciled with that of Josephus, since, according to the former, Felix and Cumanus were procurators at the same time, the one in Samaria and the other in Galilee. According to Tacitus, also, Quadratus himself sat in judgment upon Cumanus, and he expressly states that Quadratus was superior to the procurator in authority.
Quadratus died during his tenure of office (Tacitus, Annals, 1426).
Several coins struck by him have been foundation
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Neither family had previously produced any members of the Roman Senate, and Quadratus began his career by holding a minor judicial post in Rome.
