Quintilian
Americannoun
noun
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The Roman orators Cicero and Quintilian believed that "paronomasia", the Greek term for punning, was a sign of intellectual suppleness and rhetorical skill.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2013
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
The missing authors include Henry Adams and Trotsky, along with Quintilian and Maimonides.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Quintilian it is a little more complicated: witnesses and documents come to the lawyer from outside; technical proofs are constructed by the lawyer himself, so that they are formed within the discipline of oratory.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It is memory, says Quintilian, that has “exalted eloquence to its present luster.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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