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Is Quintilian's full name Marcus Fabius Quintilianus?

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Yes, Quintilian's full name was Marcus Fabius Quintilianus. He was a Roman rhetorician and teacher of rhetoric who lived from 35 to 95 AD. He was born in Calahorra, Hispania Tarraconensis (modern-day Spain), and studied rhetoric in Rome. He later became a teacher of rhetoric, and his most famous work is Institutio Oratoria, a ten-volume treatise on rhetoric.
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