Quintilian (c. 35 A.D - c. 100 A.D)Born to a rhetorician, Quintilian was poised to be a speaker since his childhood. He was sent to Rome as a young boy to learn both rhetoric (from Domitius Afer) and grammar (Remmius Palaemon). He later took Afer's Ciceronian rhetoric style, which could have been why Quintilian was obsessed with Cicero. After Afer's death, he went back to his hometown to pursue law. In 69 A.D, he returned to Rome and was spared from the political issues going on due to his lack of connections. Quintilian decided to open up a rhetorician school. During his teaching career had under his tutelage, Pliny the Younger and Tacitus. He retired in 88 A.D, after achieving financial security. He lived out the rest of his life in tranquility, slowly finishing up his famous and surviving textbook on rhetoric.
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Marcus Fabius Quintillianus Born: c. 35 A.D | Calagurrius, Hispania Died: c. 100 A.D (aged c. 65) | Unknown Latin: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/quintilian.html |
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