Word info

Quintilian

Proper noun

Meaning

Quintilian

A male given name.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. John Milton

According to Quintilian, each child has in-born ingenium, a talent for learning or linguistic intelligence that is ready to be cultivated and sharpened, as evidenced by the young child's ability to memorize and imitate. Source: Internet

According to Quintilian (93), however, many people in Flavian Rome preferred Lucilius not only to Horace but to all other Latin poets (R. Source: Internet

Cicero has been traditionally considered the master of Latin prose, with Quintilian declaring that Cicero was "not the name of a man, but of eloquence itself." Source: Internet

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, textbook-approved order of argument from Swift's time (which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ). Source: Internet

Quintilian provides the most extensive theory of primary education in Latin literature. Source: Internet

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