QUINTILIANUS, kwin-t/1-1-a'nt'is, Mar ens Fabius, Roman rhetorician: b. Calagurris (Calahorra), Spain, about 40 A.D. ; d. about 118. He was educated at Rome, where he studied under Domitius Afer, and about 69 began to practise as an advocate. Subsequently he be came a teacher of rhetoric, and had Pliny the Younger and the two grandnephews of Domi tian as pupils. Domitian bestowed on him the consular rank, and under the endowment of Vespasian he was the first public instructor to be paid from the imperial treasury. His first important treatise,
book, among which are those of Bonnell (1851), Kruger (3d ed. 1888), Peterson (1891); this book criticizes Greek and Latin literature, from the point of view of the orator, and its useful ness in forming a vocabulary. The work as a whole is remarkable for its perspicuity and well balanced judgment, as well as for the beauty of its graceful diction. From the 15th century, when the manuscript was first discovered, Quintilian was considered the standard author ity on classical education throughout the Re naissance period in Europe. The effect of his system is still recognizable in the curricula of classical schools. Consult Schanz, AL, (Geschichte der romischen Literatur> (Munich 1913) ; Woodward, T. H., (Education During the Age of the Renaissance> (Cambridge 1906).