Quintus

Quintus has two servants.

Amelia is in the peristyle with Marcus, Quintus and Julia.

Marcus and Quintus! Come here! There are many roses here!

Quintus is angry, and hits Marcus.

Mom! Mark is hitting Quintus!

Mum! Marcus is hitting Quintus!

Quintus responds.

Julius calls Quintus to him and gives him an apple.

Emilia is the mother of Marcus, Quintus and Julia.

Q. Q.] ‘the two Quinti.’ Quintus, the brother of Cicero, and his son Quintus. […] utinam mederi] ‘would that my nearest and dearest had chosen to relieve my sufferings, rather than to aggravate them’; he refers to the Quinti and Terentia.

“Quintus, I want a word with you,” said the other Quintus, for there are two Quinti.

Cicero’s preoccupation with the slander spread by the two Quinti about him at a dangerous time would in any case have led him to focus less on everyday family ructions.

Neither of the Quintuses moved, too enthralled to care what Gnaeus Pompey did to the family tyrant.