Quintus Arrius (Ben-Hur)

Quintus Arrius is a fictional character from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. He is a Roman warship commander whom Judah Ben-Hur saves from drowning. Arrius adopts Judah as his son, making him a freedman, a Roman citizen, and Arrius’s heir.[1]

References

  1. Wallace, Ben-Hur (1880), p. 135, 16062, and 16667.
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