Quietus (disambiguation)

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Titus Fulvius Iunius Quietus (died 261) was a Roman usurper.

Quietus (Latin for "calm" or "at rest") may also refer to:

People:

• Lusius Quietus, Roman general and governor
• Titus Avidius Quietus, Roman politician

In popular culture:

• Quietus, a 1940 short sci-fi story by Ross Rocklynne
• Quietus, a 1979 short story by Orson Scott Card
• "Quietus", the name of a mass-drowning ceremony in the 1992 novel The Children of Men
  • "Quietus", the name of a suicide kit in the 2006 film adaptation, Children of Men
• Quietus, a spell used in the Harry Potter series of books
• Quietus (album), a 2001 album by the doom metal band Evoken
• Quietus (Silent Reverie), a song from the 2005 album Consign to Oblivion by Epica
• "Quietus", a vampiric discipline from the Assamite clan in the role-playing game Vampire: the Masquerade.
• "Quietus", a branch of the organization Contact in Iain M. Bank's fictional universe
• "Quietus", is a weapon from Hexen: Beyond Heretic, a 1995 dark fantasy video game by id Software and Raven Software. It resembles a longsword with a fiery green aura, and is Baratus the Fighter's final weapon that can be retrieved in the game. The Quietus, like the fourth weapons for the other classes, is in pieces.
• "Quietus", the lighthouse planet, is a setting in the comic series Saga (comics).

Other:

• The Quietus, a British online music and pop culture magazine
• Lactarius quietus, a species of mushroom