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Quintilian

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Quin·til·ian  (kwn-tlyn, --n) Originally Marcus Fabius Quintilianus. First century a.d.
Roman rhetorician whose major work, the Institutio Oratoria, discusses the complete education and career of an orator.
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From Cicero and Quintilian and from Aristotle's Rhetoric we learn that the Sophist whom Plato has made so ridiculous was a man of note whose writings were preserved in later ages.
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