Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus in the context of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

The gens Quinctia, sometimes written Quintia, was a patrician family at ancient Rome. Throughout the history of the Republic, its members often held the highest offices of the state, and it produced some men of importance even during the imperial period. For the first forty years after the expulsion of the kings the Quinctii are not mentioned, and the first of the gens who obtained the consulship was Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus in 471 BC; but from that year their name constantly appears in the Fasti consulares.

As with other patrician families, in later times there were also plebeian Quinctii. Some of these may have been the descendants of freedmen of the gens, or of patrician Quinctii who had voluntarily gone over to the plebs. There may also have been unrelated persons who happened to share the same nomen.

Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 421 BC.

Quinctius belonged to the Quinctia gens, one of the early Republics most influential patrician families. Quinctius was the son of Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus, a six time consul, and nephew of the famous dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.