biography
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Quintilian
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in full Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
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pronunciation:
[kwintilian]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.35–c.100)
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| biography:
| Roman rhetorician, born in Calagurris, Spain. He studied oratory at Rome, returned there in 68, and became eminent as a pleader and state teacher of the oratorical art. His reputation rests securely on his great work, Institutio Oratoria (Education of an Orator), a complete system of rhetoric in 12 books. |
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