Quintilian (c. AD 35–c. 100)

Roman rhetorician. Born at Calagurris, Spain, he was educated in Rome, but left early in Nero's reign. He returned to Rome in AD 68, where he quickly achieved fame and wealth as a teacher of rhetoric. He composed the Institutio Oratoria/The Education of an Orator, in which he advocated a simple and sincere style of public speaking. His moral tone is in striking contrast with the general degradation of his age.