Quadra
Apology of Quadratus (fragment)
Quadratus of Athens
One paragraph survives — and it is a very good paragraph.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 64
- Stat total
- 180
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
Nearly all of Quadratus’ Apology is lost — one paragraph remains of the whole book. Almost no surviving text means very low Stamina.
Quadratus opened a respectful case to the Emperor Hadrian rather than crushing an opponent, so Quadra’s Contend is gentle.
The paragraph that survives is complete and beyond dispute — Eusebius quoted it word for word, and no scholar contests it. Defend measures that certainty, NOT size. That is why tiny Quadra defends so well.
Only specialists have ever read Quadratus, so few debaters recall him quickly. Quadra almost always speaks last.
Development
A book develops as it is read — the fragment becomes the work, the work becomes the corpus.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eyewitness Appeal | History | Argument | 40 | 100% | 25 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 4 | Steelman | Rationality | Type shift | — | — | 10 |
| 8 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 15 |
| 10 | Works That Remain | History | Argument | 60 | 100% | 15 |
Read it: The Works That Remained
The passages the Scriptorium holds on screen, word for word from a public-domain translation. Written in Koine Greek.
“But the works of our Saviour were always present, for they were genuine — those that were healed, and those that were raised from the dead, who were seen not only when they were healed and when they were raised, but were also always present.”
Quadratus, Apology, in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 4.3.2 (trans. McGiffert, NPNF² 1, public domain).
“…and not merely while the Saviour was on earth, but also after his death, they were alive for quite a while, so that some of them lived even to our day.”
Quadratus, Apology, in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 4.3.2 (trans. McGiffert, NPNF² 1, public domain).
“To him Quadratus addressed a discourse containing an apology for our religion, because certain wicked men had attempted to trouble the Christians. The work is still in the hands of a great many of the brethren, as also in our own, and furnishes clear proofs of the man’s understanding and of his apostolic orthodoxy.”
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 4.3.1 (trans. McGiffert, NPNF² 1, public domain) — Eusebius introducing Quadratus.
That is the whole book. Everything above is every surviving word of the Apology of Quadratus — there is no second passage to turn to.
Quadratus of Athens, writing to the Emperor Hadrian, c. A.D. 124–129. The earliest Christian apology of which any text at all survives.
Read Eusebius’ sentence again. In the early fourth century the book was still "in the hands of a great many of the brethren." It was common. Then it was gone, and one paragraph is left because Eusebius happened to copy it out.
Jerome, independently, calls the work "indispensable, full of sound argument and faith and worthy of the apostolic teaching," and says Quadratus became bishop of Athens after Publius was martyred (On Illustrious Men 19).