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What is Quintilian usually referred to as in English translation?

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Quintilian is a Roman rhetorician who lived in the 1st century AD. His most famous work is Institutio Oratoria, a ten-volume treatise on rhetoric that is considered to be one of the most important works on the subject in the Western tradition. Quintilian's work has been translated into many languages, and he is usually referred to as Quintilian in English translation.
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