Little is known of Q. Claudius Quadrigarius's life, but he probably lived in the 1st century BCE.
[2] The largest fragment is preserved in Aulus Gellius,[3] and concerns a single combat between T. Manlius Torquatus and a Gaul.
[4] Quadrigarius's work was considered very important, especially for the contemporary history he narrates.
[6] He is cited by Aulus Gellius, and he was probably the "Clodius" mentioned in Plutarch's Life of Numa.
Some considered that it was his lively style which ensured his survival in various extracts;[8] but more perhaps would agree with Fronto that his language was pure and colloquial (“puri ac prope cotidiani sermonis”),[9] and that it benefited from its straightforwardness, and absence of archaisms.