He says that Afer and Julius Africanus were the best orators he had heard, and that he prefers the former to the latter, Quintilian refers to a work of his On Testimony, to one entitled Dicta, and to some of his orations, of which those on behalf of Domitilla, or Cloantilla, and Volusenus Catulus seem to have been the most celebrated.

He had a marked influence on Cicero and Quintilian, and through them, on the entire educational system of the west.

But the gossip, not discouraged by Terence, lived and throve ; it crops up in Cicero and Quintilian, and the ascription of the plays to Scipio had the honour to be accepted by Montaigne and rejected by Diderot.

In this, he influenced several Roman rhetoricians, such as Cicero and Quintilian, and also had an influence on the idea of liberal education.

He had a great reputation as a poet ; Quintilian ( Instit.

" However, he had a remarkable memory and wrote poetry in unusual meters, and he enjoyed a great reputation as a teacher ; Quintilian and Persius are said to have been his pupils.

He had the reputation of being an excellent raconteur, and Quintilian awards him qualified praise as a writer of epics.

Quintilian asserts that he was far superior to any writer of tragedies he had known, and Tacitus expresses a high opinion of his literary abilities.

Apparently, Augustus had built an altar in the city, and a story of the rhetoric Quintilian mentions that the inhabitants of Tarraco complained to Augustus that a palm tree had grown on the altar He replies that would mean it was not used very often.

Quintilian, who had heard Julius Africanus, spoke of him and Domitius Afer as the best orators of their time.

According to Quintilian, Cicero afterwards boasted that he had pulled the wool over the judges ' eyes ( se tenebras offudisse iudicibus in causa Cluenti gloriatus est, Institutio Oratoria 2. 17. 21 ; the context is in discussion of orators who say false things not because they are themselves unaware of the truth, but to deceive other people ).

Cluentius was acquitted and Cicero subsequently boasted that he had thrown dust in the eyes of the jury " ... se tenebras iudicibus offudisse in causa Cluenti gloriatus est " ( Quintilian, Instit.

Vitruvius ( in the De Architectura ), Quintilian ( in his Institutiones Oratoriae ) and Statius ( in the Silvae ) also show great admiration for the De Rerum Natura.

Quintilian extolled him as lex orandi (" the standard of oratory "), and Cicero said about him that inter omnis unus excellat (" he stands alone among all the orators "), and he also acclaimed him as " the perfect orator " who lacked nothing.

Quintilian also “ insists that his ideal orator is no philosopher because the philosopher does not take as a duty participation in civic life ; this is constitutive of Quintilian's ( and Isocrates ' and Cicero's ) ideal orator " ( Walzer, 26 ).

Though he calls for imitation, he also urges the orator to use this knowledge to inspire his own original invention ( Quintilian 10. 2. 4 ).

Like Cicero, Quintilian also believes that “ history and philosophy can increase an orator ’ s command of copia and style ;" they differ in that Quintilian “ features the character of the orator, as well as the art ” ( Walzer, 36-7 ).

Quintilian also made an impression on Martial, the Latin poet.

He also edited a number of classical texts for the Teubner series, the most important of which are Tacitus ( 4th ed., 1883 ); Rhetores Latini minores ( 1863 ); Quintilian ( 1868 ); Sulpicius Severus ( 1866 ); Minucius Felix together with Firmicus Maternus De errore ( 1867 ); Salvianus ( 1877 ) and Victor Vitensis's Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae ( 1878 ).

In his essay " Bookburning and Censorship in Ancient Rome ", Frederick H. Cramer talks about the "... spineless schoolmaster Quintilian grudgingly admitted that ' the bold utterances of Cremutius also have their admirers and deserve their fame, but he went on to assure readers that ' the passages that brought him to his ruin have been expurgated.

The work ends with a dissertation on the decay of oratory, a typical subject of the period in which authors such as Tacitus, Petronius and Quintilian, who also dealt with the subject, were still alive.

This judgement also seems to be upheld by Quintilian, who ranks the elegies of Tibullus higher and is somewhat dismissive of the poet, but Propertius ' popularity is attested by the presence of his verses in the graffiti preserved at Pompeii.

Quintilian seems to refer to this work under Anaximenes ' name in Institutio Oratoria 3. 4. 9, as the Italian Renaissance philologist Piero Vettori first recognized.

The influence of Quintilian ’ s masterwork, Institutio Oratoria, can be felt in several areas.

Quintilian tells us that, after several years of campaigning for a provincial governorship, Didius complained at the province he was offered, although whether this refers to Sicily or Britain is unknown.

The emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Theodosius I, the philosopher Seneca, and the poets Martial, Quintilian, and Lucan were born in Spain.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Quintilian ( 35-100 AD ) began his career as a pleader in the courts of law ; his reputation grew so great that Vespasian created a chair of rhetoric for him in Rome.

According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.

The emperor does not appear to have taken offence ; in the year 90, Quintilian was made tutor of Domitian's two grand-nephews and heirs.

Quintilian speaks of three orations by Sulpicius as still in existence ; one of these was the speech against Murena, another Pro or Contra Aufidium, of whom nothing is known.

The only ancient writer who mentions him is Quintilian ( 10. 1. 90 ), who laments his recent death as a great loss ; as Quintilian's work was finished about 90 AD, this gives a limit for the death of Flaccus.

Hist., praefatio, 20 ; Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 23 ; Quintilian, Instit x. I.

* the statement of the case, or narratio -- Quintilian explained that in the narratio " We shall for instance represent a person accused of theft as covetous, accused of adultery as lustful, accused of homicide as rash, or attribute the opposite qualities to these persons if we are defending them ; further we must do the same with place, time and the like.

The way of speaking in the Dialogus seems closer to the model of Cicero, refined but not prolix, which inspired the teaching of Quintilian ; it lacks the incongruities that are typical of Tacitus's major historical works.

They were considered by some ancients to be frequently polluted with disgraceful amours, which, according to Quintilian, were only a representation of the conduct of Afranius.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

At the same time that rhetoric was becoming divorced from political decision making, rhetoric rose as a culturally vibrant and important mode of entertainment and cultural criticism in a movement known as the " second sophistic ," a development which gave rise to the charge ( made by Quintilian and others ) that teachers were emphasizing style over substance in rhetoric.

Quintilian: " 60, 000 men were slain by Hannibal at Cannae ".

The Roman philosopher Seneca ( 1 BCE-65 AD ) was born in Spain as were the poets Martial ( 41-104 AD ), Quintilian ( 35-100 AD ), and Lucan ( 39-65 AD ).

They are spoken of in the highest terms by Tacitus, Quintilian, and the younger Plinius, and were read even in a much later age, as one of them is quoted by the grammarian Charisius.

Later writers on rhetoric, such as Cicero and Quintilian refined this organizational scheme even further, so that there were eventually six parts:

Cicero and Quintilian, for example, encouraged writers to rearrange the structure when it strengthened their case: for instance, if the opposing arguments were known to be powerful, it might be better to place the refutation before the proof.

Usually these tablets were used for everyday purposes ( accounting, notes ) and for teaching writing to children, according to the methods discussed by Quintilian in his Institutio Oratoria X Chapter 3.