person
Hostius Quadra
also: Hostius, Quadra
A wealthy Roman of the Augustan age notorious for staged sexual depravity, who used magnifying mirrors; killed by his slaves, whom Augustus declined to punish. Seneca makes him the moral exemplum closing Natural Questions I.
Reading notes
- Natural Questions §1.16.1 Hostius Quadra
A wealthy Roman of the Augustan age, notorious for staged sexual depravity and for the magnifying mirrors he used; killed by his slaves, whom Augustus declined to avenge. Seneca makes him the moral exemplum that closes Book I.