Gaius Asinius Protimus Quadratus was a

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, who was active during the

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. He is known entirely from inscriptions. Quadratus was

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ar governor of

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between 192 and 211; while governing Achaea, Quadratus was designated

suffect consul The consuls were the highest elected public officials of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC). Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum''an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspire ...

for a ''

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'' during the following year. He was the brother of Gaius Asinius Rufus, son of Gaius Asinius Nicomachus and wife and cousin Julia Quadratilla (or perhaps Asinia Marcellina, descendant of the family of

Gaius Asinius Pollio Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporaneous history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch. Po ...

) and paternal grandson of Gaius Asinius Rufus and wife Julia. His children included Gaius Asinius Nicomachus Julianus, proconsular governor of

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at some point during the reign of

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.Leunissen, ''Konsuln und Konsulare'', p. 228

References

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, ''Continuite Gentilice et Continuite Familiale Dans Les Familles Senatoriales Romaines, A L'Epoque Imperiale, Mythe et Realite''. Linacre, UK: Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2000. ILL. NYPL ASY (Rome) 03-983. 3rd-century Romans Roman governors of Achaia 2nd-century births 3rd-century deaths Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Quadratus Protimus, Gaius {{AncientRome-bio-stub