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Quintilian, engraving by Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers
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Quintilian

c. 35–c. 100 · Teacher of rhetoric

A Spaniard who held the first public chair of rhetoric in Rome and taught the nephews of Domitian. His book on the training of the orator shaped European education from the Renaissance on.

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The Orator’s Education, in Latin beside English.

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