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Quintilian
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (; – ) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian ( ), although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, commonly known as Quintilian, was a male Roman pedagogue, rhetorician, poet, and lawyer. Born in Calahorra in 35 AD, he lived during the Roman Empire and died in Rome in 96 AD. A member of the Fabia gens, he wrote in Latin. His most notable work is the *Institutio Oratoria*.
Quintilian studied under Remmius Palaemon, Gnaeus Domitius Afer, and Marcus Servilius Nonianus. He taught several prominent figures, including Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and Juvenal. His writings include *Quintilian's Institutes of oratory* and *Epistularum libri novem*. He is described in sources such as the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition and the *Nuttall Encyclopædia*.
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- Quintilian's Institutes of oratory
- M. Fabii Qvintiliani, oratoris eloqventissimi, De institutione oratoria libri XII
- M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionis oratoriae liber decima
- Epistularum libri novem
- M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionis oratoriae
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 – c. 100) was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian, although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts. Quintilian was born ca. 35 in Calagurris (Calahorra, La Rioja) in Hispania. His father, a well-educated man, sent him to Rome to study rhetoric early in the r
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Orator's Education
· 2002 · cited 55x
- Acute Hydrogen Selenide Inhalation
· 1980 · cited 23x
- Institutio Oratoria
· 1970 · cited 17x
- The education of the orator
· 1951 · cited 11x
- Institutes of Oratory
· 2006 · cited 7x
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Quotes
- “Falsa enim est querela, paucissimis hominibus vim percipiendi quae tradantur esse concessam, plerosque vero laborem ac tempora tarditate ingenii perdere. Nam contra plures reperias et faciles in excogitando et ad discendum promptos. Quippe id est homini naturale, ac sicut aves ad volatum, equi ad cursum, ad saevitiam ferae gignuntur, ita nobis propria est mentis agitatio atque sollertia.”
- “Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.”
- “Atque eam natura ipsa videtur ad tolerandos facilius labores velut muneri nobis dedisse, si quidem et remigem cantus hortatur; nec solum in iis operibus in quibus plurium conatus praeeunte aliqua iucunda voce conspirat, sed etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur.”
- “Quamlibet multa egerimus, quodam tamen modo recentes sumus ad id quod incipimus. quis non obtundi potest, si per totum diem cuiuscunque artis unum magistrum ferat? mutatione recreabitur sicut in cibis, quorum diversitate reficitur stomachus et pluribus minore fastidio alitur.”
- “Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.”
- “Vtrubique autem orator meminisse debebit actione tota quid finxerit, quoniam solent excidere quae falsa sunt: verumque est illud quod vulgo dicitur, mendacem memorem esse oportere.”
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Key facts
- Academic.name
- Quintilian
- Academic.image
- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (par Jehandier Desrochers) (cropped).jpg
- Academic.caption
- Engraved portrait by Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers, 18th century
- Academic.native_name
- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
- Academic.birth_place
- Calagurris, Hispania, Roman Empire
- Academic.death_date
- (aged around 65)
- Academic.notable_students
- Pliny the YoungerTacitus (disputed)
- Academic.notable_works
- Institutio Oratoria
- Academic.discipline
- Rhetoric
- Academic.school_tradition
- Ciceronianism
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Quintilian, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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[Institutionis oratoriae libri XII]
Quintiliani Institutionum oratorium libri XII
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Declamazioni [Manuscrito]. Inc.: Trasse un giovane dello incendio della casa suo padre (h. 3)... Exp.: io so quello cheme a tormentato lo lusero et tacero. Finis (h. 199)
M. Fabii Quinctiliani De Institutione oratoria libri duodecim : cum notis et animadversionibus virorum doctorum
M. Fabii Quintiliani Oratoris eloquentissimi institutionum oratoriarum libri XII [Texto impreso] :] singulari cum studio tum iudicio doctissimorum virorum ad fidem vetustissimorum codicum recogniti ac restituti. Eiusdem Declamationum liber
M. Fabii Quintiliani Intitutionum oratoriarum libri duodecim [Texto impreso] :]summa diligentia vetustissimorum codicum recogniti ac restituti : accesserunt huic nouae editioni Declamationes quae tam ex P. Pithoei ... quam aliorum bibliothecis et editionibus colligi potuerunt...
Instituciones oratorias
M. F. QVINTILIANVS
M. FABII QVINtiliani Oratoris eloquentissimi, Institutionum oratoriarum Libri XII
M. FABII QVINTILIANI Institutionum Oratoriarum libri XII. diligentius recogniti M D XXII :
Ioannis Camertis Minoritani, artivm, at sacrae theologiae doctoris, in. C. Ivlii Solini Polyistora enarrationes :
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M. T. C. Rhetorico[rum] libri recenter castigati /
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M. T. Cicero[n]is: cui primae in eloquentia et philosophia sine controuersia tribuunt: tres de oficijs ad M. Ciceroni filii libri ...
M. Fabii Qvintiliani Oratoriarvm institvtionvm lib. XII. :
M. Fabii Quintiliani Rhetoris Clarissimi Oratoriarum institutionum Libri XII. /
M. Fabii Qvintiliani Institvtionvm Oratoriarvm Libri Dvodecim :
M. Fabii Qvintiliani Institutionum Oratoriarum libri XII diligentius recogniti MDXXII. Index capitum totius operis. Conuersio dictionum Graecarum, quas ipse author in latinum non transtulit
Qvintilianvs
M. Fabii Qvintiliani Oratoriarum Institutionum libri Duodecim :
Petri Mosellani Protegensis, Viri Ervditissimi, In M. Fab. Qvintiliani Rhetoricas Institvtiones Annotationes:
M. Fabii Qvintiliani Institvtionvm Oratoriarvm Libri XII. Eiusdem Declamationum liber
M. Fabii Qvintiliani Clarissimi Rhetoris, Oratoriarum institutionum Libri XII. ad fidem castigati optimorum exemplarium /
Declamationes
M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionum oratoriarum libri duodecim...
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Life
- Works
- ''Institutio Oratoria''
- Placement of Quintilian's rhetoric
- Influence of Quintilian
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (; – ) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian ( ), although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.
==Life== Quintilian was born c. 35 AD in Calagurris (Calahorra, La Rioja) in Hispania. His father, a well-educated man, sent him to Rome to study rhetoric early in the reign of Nero. While there, he cultivated a relationship with Domitius Afer, who died in 59. "It had always been the custom … for young men with ambitions in public life to fix upon some older model of their ambition … and regard him as a mentor". Quintilian evidently adopted Afer as his model and listened to him speak and plead cases in the law courts. Afer has been characterized as a more austere, classical, Ciceronian speaker than those common at the time of Seneca the Younger, and he may have inspired Quintilian's love of Cicero.
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