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Quintilian (ca. 35-ca. 99) was a Roman rhetorician and literary critic. His influence on rhetoric, literary criticism, and educational theory was profound.
Quintilian, or Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, was born at Calagurris in Spain, the son of a rhetorician.
He studied mainly in Rome, under the orator Domitius After and perhaps the great grammarian Remmius Palaemon, among others. He then went back to Spain, probably as a teacher in his hometown, and returned to Rome in 68, the only certain date in his life.
As a teacher of rhetoric, he became wealthy and famous from his lectures and was also an advocate in the law courts.
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Under the emperor Vespasian he was made a professor of rhetoric with a salary from the state. Among his pupils was Pliny the Younger.
At some time, probably in the early 80s, Quintilian married a very young woman. She died at the age of 18, after giving birth to two sons, who soon died as well.
After 20 years of teaching, perhaps in 90, Quintilian