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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.
Quintilian [kwɪnˈtɪljən]
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(Biographies / Quintilian (?35-?96) M, Roman, PHILOSOPHY: rhetorician, EDUCATION: teacher) Latin name Marcus Fabius Quintilianus. ?35-?96 ad, Roman rhetorician and teacher
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The same is true for the dizzying array of authors who are invoked: ancients such as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintillian, Horace, and Virgil; postclassical figures such as Plotinus and Maximus of Tyre; Renaissance writers from Ficino, Landino, and Valla to Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.
L'idee de fable: Theories de la fiction poetique a la Renaissance by Ramachandran, Ayesha / Renaissance Quarterly
The Classical Latin author Quintillian wrote that the very phonemes were imbibed by the infant, and therefore stressed that a child's nurse should be of the highest moral character and know how to speak correctly.
Gary P. Cestaro. Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body by Alfie, Fabian / Italica
99) AFTER tackling corruption, genetic conspiracy and poisoned whisky, the wonderfully named Quintillian Dalrymple returns for another whodunnit set in the independent city state of Edinburgh in the year 2026.
Book Ends by Cole, Paul / Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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