Quintilian

American  

[kwin-til-yuhn, -ee-uhn] / kwɪnˈtɪl yən, -i ən /

noun

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

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Quintilian British  

/ kwɪnˈtɪljən /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Two thousand years ago, Quintilian, the ancient Roman orator, first established the ideal that a good speaker needed to be able to write and deliver an effective speech as well as to improvise.

From Salon

I belong to the ranks of those who adhere to the second notion, which is as old as Cicero and Quintilian.

From The Guardian

From Quintilian we learn about the famous strongman Milon who accustomed himself to picking up a calf each day until, as it aged, he was able to lift a full-grown bull; Herodotus describes Abaris, a wonderworker from mysterious Hyperborea who could fly in the air on a magic arrow; and Tacitus relates the legend of Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

From Washington Post

For him and the others Beard investigates, including Quintilian and Ovid, it became “a cultural norm” for jokes to be “swapped, handed down, collected, or bought and sold.”

From Washington Post

His pantheon of classical writers, the "happy few," as he calls them, includes Quintilian, Longinus and, most importantly, Horace.

From The Guardian