Gaius Asinius Quadratus

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Gaius Asinius Quadratus (fl. 248) was a Roman Historian in 200. His works are now lost, surviving only as a few fragments. He wrote a Thousand-Year History, celebrating the millennium of the foundation of Rome. He also wrote a narrative of the Parthian campaigns of the preceding century. All of his works were in Greek. Asinius is the nomen of the gens Asinia of ancient Rome. He was the son of Gaius Julius Asinius Quadratus, and the grandson of Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus, Legate at Judaea between 102 and 105, Consul of Rome in 105 and Proconsul of Asia in 105, and wife Asinia Marcella, Domina figl..

He was the father of Gaius Asinius Quadratus Protimus, Proconsul of Achaea in 220.

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• Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).