p- 343 i. The flesh of the quail, t! gh of an agreeable
quality, is -aid h\ some writers to he heating, and it has been supposed by Bome that the deaths that occurred from eating the food in the wilderness resulted partly from these birds feeding on hellebore ( Pliny. Hist. Nat, x, 23) and other poisonous plants; hut this is exceed- ingly improbable, although the immoderate gratifica- tion of the appetite for the space of a whole month (Numb. xi,20) on such food, in a hot climate, and in the case "f a people w ho .at the time of the wanderings rare- ly tasted flesh, might have induced dangerous symptoms.
"The plague" seems to have been directly sent upon the people by God as a punishment for their murmur- ings, and perhaps is not even in a subordinate sense to be attributed to natural causes. Kitto, Smith, Pair- bairn. See, in general. Bochart, Tfieroz. ii. 648 sq.; Bartlett, / 'y Days in tfo Desert,p. 10; Tristram, Nat.
>le, p. 229; W I, Bibli Animals, p. 430
sq.; Bill Educator,!, 157,250; iii.88.
Quaini, l.i n.i. an Italian painter, the son of Fran- cesco, was horn .-it Bologna in 1643. After having ac- quired the rudiments of the art and a knowledge of tive from his father.be became a disciple first of
Guercino, and afterwards of his relation Carlo Cignani,
in who>e school he was contemporary with Marc Antonio I iiini. His improvement was so great that in
a i rw j ears he was emploj ed, as w ell as Franceschini. to
assist Cignani in the execution of some of his -real
works. Tin ir method of handling and coloring was so similar that it was difficult to determine what part of any work was executed by either of them. InCignani's principal works, however, it seems that Quaini painted the landscape, the architecture, ami other ornaments, and Franceschini the figures. After Cignani's death the two artists continue. 1 to work tog( ther. They were employed at Bologna. Modena, Piacenza, Genoa, and home, where they painted the cartoons for a cupola in St. Peter's, which has Bince been executed in mosaic Quaini also painted many historical subjects from his ow ii compositions, which were t ntirely finished by him- self. In the church of St. Joseph at Bologna there is a j picture of the Visitation; in La < arita, the dead Christ Supported by tht Virgin; and in the church ol St. Nich- olas the principal altar-piece is by Quaini -it represents St. Nicholas in Prison Visited by tht Virgin and mi \ngel, and is favorably spoken of by Lanzi. Quaini died in 1717. — English Cyclop.s.v. Sec Spooner, Biog. Hist.qftht I- im .1 rts, s. v.
Quakers. See Fkii kds.
Quam despectus. qi aw deje< i i s. is the begin- ning of a passion-hymn, written by the doctor seraphic cus, St. Bonaventura (q.v.), of which the first stanza runs thus;
•• Qnam despectus. quam dejectus, Rex ccBlornm est effectas,
Ut snlvnrel eseculum ; Esui ivit et sitivit. Pauper et egcuus ivit Usque ad patibulum."
This beautiful hymn has been translated int.. English by P. S.Worsley, and from the Lyra Messianica, p. 277,
we subjoin the lirst stanza :
"Oh. what shame and desolation, Working out the world's .salvation, Deigned the King of Benveu to bear!
See li i ill bowed with sorrows endless,
Hungry, thirsty, poor, and friendless, Even io ill.' cross repair." For the original, see Trench. Sacrt ■! Latin /'< < try (Lond. 1864), p. 143 sq. (B. P.)
Quam dilecta tabernacula is the beginning of a prose of Adam of St.Victor (d. about 1192) lor the ded- ication of a church. ••This hymn," says Mr. Trench, "of which the theme is. the dignities and glories of the
Church, as prefigured in the Old Testament and fulfilled
in the New. is the very extravagance of typical appli- cation, .and were it only as a study in mediaeval typolo- gy, would hi' worthy ol' insertion ; hut it has other and higher merits, even though it must he owned rather that the poet's learned stuff masters him. than that he is able effectually to masti r it. Its title indicates that it was composed for the occasion of a church's dedication, the services of which time were ever laid out for the carrying of men's thoughts from the temple made w it li hands to that spiritual temple, on earth or in heaven, 'whose builder and maker is God.'" We subjoin the lirst verse:
"Quam dilecla tabernacula
Domini virtiitmn et atria !
Quam electi architect!,
Tula Bdiflcia,
Qute non movent, inimo (event,
\ emus, tinmen, pnivia I" There are two English translations of ibis prose, one by W. P. Flower, in Lyra Mystica, p.21 1 sq. " How loved thy halls and dwelling-place" and the other by Neale, in his Mediaval Hymns, p. lb', sq.. with explanatory notes. A third translation, bul only of the last sian/;ls. is given by Mr. Bonar in the Sunday at //■ 1878 '. which, lor their beauty, we subjoin ; '• Finn ;: .■ Bhndowed
This onr dn> of grace displays !
( III the I'olllll Witll our I .Mil ed
II. ; . we rest, and Bing, and praise, Now the bridal day has come ! '• Days of which the silver trumpets Of the Etncieut feasts first told;