Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was born about AD 35 at Calagurris in Spain and was educated at Rome. After some years pleading in the courts he returned to Spain, and came back to the capital in the train of Galba in AD 68.

Under the Flavian emperors he became the most famous teacher of rhetoric in Rome, and was the first rhetor to be paid a public salary from the imperial treasury, an appointment made by Vespasian. Among his pupils were the younger Pliny and, it is said, the grandnephews of Domitian.

After some twenty years of teaching he retired and, about AD 95, wrote the Institutio Oratoria, a complete education of the orator in twelve books, from the nursery to the pleading of cases, with a famous survey of Greek and Roman authors in Book X. He died about AD 100.