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- Roman rhetorician whose major work, the Institutio Oratoria, discusses the complete education and career of an orator.
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If he outlived Domitian it was not for long, as Pliny in the letters quoted above (the earlier written about A.D. 100) does not speak of Quintilian as alive.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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* _Encyclopaedia Britannica; _ article 'Quintilian'
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Of these speeches we have only some short fragments, which have been quoted by authors whose works have come down to us, such as Quintilian; by which we know, at any rate, that Cicero's writings had been so far carefully preserved, and that they were commonly read in those days.
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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You have read "Quintilian," the best book in the world to form an orator; pray read 'Cicero de Oratore', the best book in the world to finish one.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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You have read "Quintilian," the best book in the world to form an orator; pray read 'Cicero de Oratore', the best book in the world to finish one.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1749 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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The two other colleges of Lupercales to which allusion is made were known as the Quintilian and the Fabian.] [Footnote 111: Compare Suetonius (Life of Caesar), chapter 52.] [Footnote 112: It is here, with this word, that one of the two most important manuscripts of Dio (the codex Venetus or Marcianus 395) begins.] [Footnote 113: Most editors have gotten over the difficulty of this
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(rhetoric) from Aquila Romanus and Fortunatianus; Book VI (geometry, including geography) from Solinus and in an abridged form, from Pliny the Elder; and Book X (music), from Aristide's "Quintilian".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Though Poggio was responsible for many priceless finds—the works of Vitruvius and Quintilian, the letters of Cicero—it was thanks to his discovery in 1417 of the sole surviving manuscript of the Roman poet Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" that, in Mr. Greenblatt's phrase, "the world swerved in a new direction."
How the Secular World Began Eric Ormsby 2011
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Classical theorists about rhetoric like Cicero and Quintilian described it as the art of winning consensus, the art of bringing people together for a common cause.
Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II" 2009
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The ancient literature on rhetoric includes works by Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian.
The Syntax of Style Henry Hitchings 2010
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