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 690 QUADRIBURGIUM. and Crescenlino, near the confluence of the Dora Baltea with the Po ; but the exact site lias not been determined. Though the name is not men- tioned by any of the geographers, it would seem to have been in the later ages of the Empire a place or station of importance, as we learn from the Notitia that a body of troops (Sarmatae Gentiles) was permanently stationed there. (Kotit. Dign. vol. ii. p. 121 ) [E. H. B.] QUADKIBU'RGIUM. Ammiaims JIarcellinus (xviii. 2) mentions Quadriburgium among the for- tresses on the Rhine which Julian repaired : " Civi- tates occupatae sunt septem, Castra Herculis, Quadriburgium, Tricesimae, Novcsium, Bonna, An- tunnaeum et Bingio." There is however some cor- ruption in the passage (note of Lindenbrog). The places seem to be mentioned in order from north to south. D'Anville conjectures that Quadriburgium is the same place as Burginatium [Buegina- tu;m], following Cluver and Alting. (Ukert, Gallien, p. 528.) Other geogiaphers conjecture solely from the resemblance of name that it may be Qtialburq, not far from Cleve, which appears to have been a Roman place, for Roman coins and inscrip- tions have been found there. [G. L.] QUARIA'TES. [Quadlvtes.] QUAKQUEKNI, a people in Ibtria, of uncertain site. {VVm. iii. 19. s. 23.) QUARQUERNI. [Querqueuni.] QUARTEXSIS LOCUS, a place mentioned in the Not. Imp. as uniler the command of the governor of Belgica Secunda : " Praefectus chassis Sambricae in loco" Quartensi sive Hornensi." The place seems to be Quarle on the Sainbre, which keeps the ancient name. The word Quarte indicates a distance of iv. from some principal place, it being usual for chief towns to reckon distances along the roads which led from them to the limits of their territory. This principal place to which Quartensis belonged was Ba<racum (^Bavai), and the distance from Quarte to Bavai is four Gallic leagues. The great Roman road from Durocortorum (^Reims') to Bavai passed by Quarte. "Quartensis" is the adjective of a form " Quartus " or " Quarta," and Quarta occurs in an old record of the year 1125, " Altare de Quarta supra Sambram," which is tlie church of Quarte. [G. L.] QUERQUERNI (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4; Quarquerni, Inscr.ap. Gj-ato', p. 245. 2; Quacerni, ViovaKipvol, Ptol. ii. 6. § 47), a people in the NW. of Hispania 'J'arraconensis, a subdivision of the Gallaeci Bra- carii. QUERQUE'TULA (JE:<A. Querquetulanus -, Kop. KOTovKavos, Dionys.), an ancient city of Latium, mentioned only by Pliny among the populi Albenses, or extinct communities of Latium, and by Dionysius among the the Latin cities which constituted the league against Rome. (Plin. iii. 5. s. 9; Dionys. v. 61.) Neitiier passage affords the slightest clue to its position, and the name is not elsewhere mentioned ; indeed, it seems certain that the place was not in existence at a later period. It is undoubtedly erro- neous to connect (as Gell has done) the name of the Porta Querquetulana at Rome with this city (Becker, Ilandhuch, vol. i. p. 170); and we are absolutely in the dark as to its position. It has been placed by Gell and Nibby at a place called Corcullo, about 3 miles NE. of Gabii and the same distance from Hadrian's villa near TivoU ; but this is a mere con- jecture. (Gell, Top. of Rome, p. 369; Nibby, Dintorni, vol. ii. p. 668.) [E. H. B.] EABBATH-MOAB. QUINDA. [Anazarbus.] QUINTA'NAE or AD QUINTA'NAS, a sta- tion on the Via Labicana or Latina, 15 miles from Rome, and at the foot of the hill occupied by the ancient city of Labicuni, now La Colonna, from which it was about a mile distant. (Itin. Ant. p. 304 ; Gell, Top. of Rome, p. 5.) Under the Roman Empire it became the site of a village or suburb of Labicum, the inhabitants of which as- sumed the name of Lavicani Quintanenses. [La- bicum.] [E. H. B.] QUINTIA'NA CASTRA, a fort in the east of Vindelicia, not far from the banks of the Danube, between Batava Castra and Augu.stana Castra. Its garrison consisted of a troop of Rhaelian horse- men. (/<. Ant. p. 249; Notit. Imp., where it is called Quartana Castra ; comp. Eugipp. Vit. S. Severini, 15, 27.) Muchar (^Noricum, p. 285) identifies its site with that of the modern village of Kilmen. [L. S.] QUIZA (KoJtfa, also Bou'i'^o, Ptol. iv. 2. § 3), a place on the coast of Mauretania Caesariensis, called by Ptolemy a colonia, and in the Antonine Itinerary a municipium, but in Pliny designated as " Quiza Xenitana preregrinorum oppidum." It was situated between Portus Magnus and Arsenaria, at the dis- tance of 40 stadia from either. It is the modern Giza near Oran. (Ptol. I.e. ; It. Ant. p. 13; Plin V. 2 ; Mela, i. 6.) E.^ EAAMAH. [RiiEGMA.] EAAMSES ('Pa^efTo-^, LXX., Exod. i. 11, xii. 37; Numb, xssiii. 3, 5), was, according to D'Anville {3fem stir I'Egypte, p. 72), identical with Heroopolis in the Delta; but according toother writers (Jablonsky, Opusc. ii. p. 136; Winer, Bibl. Realwurterbiich, vol. ii. p. 351) the same as Helio- polis in the same division of Aegypt. [W.B.D.] RABBATH-AMMON. [Philadelphia.] RABBATH-MGAB, a town in the c<mntry of Moab, stated by Stephanus, who is followed by Re- land, Eaumer, Winer, and other moderns, to be identical with Ar of Moab, the classical Areopolis. This identification is almost certainly erroneous ; and indeed it is very doubtful whether a Rabbath did exist at all in the country of Moab All the notices of such a name in the Bible are iden- tified with Rabbath -Ammon, except in Joshua (xiii. 25), where Aroer is said to be " before Rab- bah," which may possibly be Rabbath-Ammon, and certainly cannot, in the absence of other ancient evidence, be admitted to prove the existence of a Piabbath in Moab. There is, however, some evi- dence that such a town may have existed in that country, in the modern site of Rabba, marked in Zimmennan's map about halfway between Kerak (Kir of Moab) and the Mojeb (Arnon), and by him identified with Areopolis, which last, however, was certainly identical with Ar of Moab, and lay further north, on the south bank of the Arnon, and in the extreme border of Moab (^Numb. xxi. 15, xxii. 36). [Areopolis.] Rabba is placed by Burck- liardt 3 hours north of Kerak {Syria, p. 377), and is doubtless the site noticed in Abulfeda's Tabula Si/riae as Rabbath and J/a6 (90). Irby and Mangles Ei-, &.C., see RiiA-, Rhe-, Em-, &c.
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