Concept
Quintilian
Overview
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Latin: [kʷiːntɪliˈaːnʊs]; c. 35 – c. 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian ( kwin-TIL-ee-ən), although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.
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They ought to be occupied with their letters until they are able to read and write; but the acquisition of perfect beauty or quickness in writing, if nature has not stimulated them to acquire these accomplishments in the given number of years, they should let alone. And as to the learning of compositions committed to writing which are not set to the lyre, whether metrical or without rhythmical divisions…
Plato, Laws
States what Quintilian is; the author is tied to Quintilian in the knowledge graph.
_His Rhetoric._ It was probably his rules for rhetoric and poetry that Cicero and Quintilian had in view. Cicero, in his "Orator" says that "no one had more science, sagacity, invention, or judgment." Quintilian goes so far as to praise, not only the extent of his knowledge, but also the suavity of his elocution--_suavitatem eloquendi._
Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02
Names Quintilian twice.
94. _Coetus ... soliti_: cf. 10. _Platonis ubertate_: cf. Quintilian's "_illa Livii lactea ubertas_." _Plenum ac refertam_: n. on 11. _Dubitationem_: Halm with one MS., G, gives _dubitantem_, Baiter _dubitanter_, Why alter? _Ars quaedam philosophiae_: before these words all Halm's MSS., exc G, insert _disserendi_, probably from the line above, Lipsius keeps it and ejects _philosophiae_, while Lamb., Day read…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Academica
Opens on Quintilian; names Quintilian.
Philosophers who discussed Quintilian
- Aristophanes
- William of Conches
- Renaissance
- Thomas More
- Petrus Ramus
- Xenophon
- Richard McKeon
- Cicero
- Juvenal
- Seneca the Younger
- Gorgias
- Arius Didymus
- Nigidius Figulus
- Judah Messer Leon
Related ideas
- Erasmus
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- John Stuart Mill
- Jerome
- Isocrates
- Middle Ages
- Tacitus
- Augustine of Hippo
- Nero
- Plato
- Post-structuralism
- Rhetoric
- Roman Empire
- Renaissance
- Renaissance humanism
- University of Chicago
- Vespasian
- Writing
- Michel de Montaigne
- Alexander Pope
- Leonardo Bruni
- Jacques Derrida
- Cicero
- Juvenal
Place in the tradition
Part of Sophist.