Quietus (disambiguation)

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Titus Fulvius Iunius Quietus (died 261) was a Roman usurper.

Quietus (Latin for "calm" or "at rest") may also refer to:

People:

• Lusius Quietus, Roman general and governor
• Tiberius Avidius Quietus, Roman politician

In popular culture:

• Quietus, a Latin word used by William Shakespeare in the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy of his play Hamlet
• Quietus, a 1940 short sci-fi story by Ross Rocklynne
• Quietus, a 1980 short story by Orson Scott Card
• "Quietus", the name of a mass-drowning ceremony in the 1992 novel The Children of Men
  • "Quietus", the name of a suicide kit in the 2006 film adaptation, Children of Men
• Quietus, a spell used in the Harry Potter series of books; see Spells in Harry Potter#Quietus
• Quietus (album), a 2001 album by the doom metal band Evoken
• Quietus (Silent Reverie), a song from the 2005 album Consign to Oblivion by Epica
• Quietus: To The New World, a short sci-fi movie by the Lowry Bros.
• "Quietus", a vampiric discipline from the Assamite clan in the role-playing game Vampire: the Masquerade.
• "Quietus", a branch of the organization Contact in Iain M. Banks' fictional Culture universe

Other:

• The Quietus, a British online music and pop culture magazine
• Lactarius quietus, a species of mushroom
• "Quietus", a homeopathic medication marketed as a palliative for tinnitus

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