Quintilianus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Quintĭlĭānus (Quinct-), i, m.,

Quintilian , a Roman surname. Thus, M. Fabius Quintilianus, the celebrated rhetorician , teacher of Pliny the younger and Juvenal; a native of Calagurris , in Spain , whose rhetorical work , De Institutione Oratoriā, is still extant , Mart. 2, 90, 2; Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 9; 6, 6, 3; Juv. 6, 75 and 280; 7, 180.