List of Cultural References in Divine Comedy - Q

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• "Qui lugent": ("Who mourn") An abbreviation of "Beati qui lugent quoniam ipsi consolabuntur." ("Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted") (Mat 5:4; 5:5 in the Vulgate)
  • Spoken by an angel as Dante passes out of the terrace of the slothful. Purg. XIX, 50.
• Quintius: Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (520 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) Ancient Roman noble who assumed dictatorial powers in a crisis and then promptly relinquished them to return to his farm. The city of Cincinnati, Ohio, is named in his honor.
  • Cited as an exemplar of ancient Roman virtue. Par. VI, 46–47.