person
Quintus Fadius
Q. Fadius
also: Q. Fadio, Q. Fadius
Brother of Cicero's friend M. Fadius; in Fam. 9.25 he advertises for sale the Herculanean estate held jointly with his brother, provoking the lawsuit Cicero asks Paetus to settle.
Reading notes
- Second Philippic §3 the son-in-law of a freedman
Antony's first wife was a daughter of Quintus Fadius, a freedman; in Roman eyes marriage into a freedman family was a social disgrace, and Cicero throws it in his face.