Quartilla

Quartilla is a character in the Satyricon which is said to be the "first picaresque" novel in Latin^[2] although it is not completely extant. This story was written by Petronius Arbiter in the first century. Quartilla is a follower of the god Priapus and she and her maids are involved with seducing and torturing three of the characters, Encolpius, Ascyltum, and Giton.^[3]

Portrait by Norman Lindsay (1909-22)^[1]

She has been the subject of artistic^[1] and academic study.^[4] It has been proposed that she represents Octavia and her name is a pun like reference for the reader.^[5]