Quintilian

[kwin-til-yuhn, -ee-uhn]

noun

1. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, a.d. c35–c95, Roman rhetorician.

Quintilian

/ kwɪnˈtɪljən /

noun

1. Latin name Marcus Fabius Quintilianus. ?35–?96 _ad , Roman rhetorician and teacher

Example Sentences

Quintilian’s example of an appeal to circumstance is a made-up one.

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When Quintilian says that circumstantial evidence can take the place of a witness, later lawyers took him as authorizing it to be considered as half of a complete proof.

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This is the point at which this argument becomes interesting, for, as noted earlier, Quintilian does take signs to be equivalent to testimonies, and so does Parsons.

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Thus Quintilian assumes the lawyer will appeal to what we might call stereotypes: ‘It is easier to believe brigandage of a man, poisoning of a woman.’

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‘Circumstances’, we have seen, is Quintilian’s coinage.

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