Quintilian

How to use Quintilian in a sentence

• Quintilian's criticism is indorsed by all scholars,--Lyricorum Horatius fere solus legi dignus, in verbis felicissime audax.

  Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John Lord

• None of these nursery stories have come down to us, but Quintilian tells us that Aesop's fables resembled them.

  The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone Johnston

• The orator must be himself moved, according to Quintilian, just as the poet, according to Aristotle.

  Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance | Donald Lemen Clark

• Quintilian classifies as tropes words or phrases converted from their proper signification to another.

  Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance | Donald Lemen Clark

• The only difficulty of this passage is, that Quintilian tells us, that this satire of Varro was of a former kind.

  Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals | John Dryden