QUINTILIAN, whose Institutes of Oratory rank with the similar treatises of Aristotle and Cicero, was born at Calagurris in Spain, not later than 35 A.D. His father taught rhetoric at Rome; and for twenty years under Galba, Quintilian himself was the head of the leading Roman school of oratory. His reputation as a teacher was so great that Vespasian endowed his school with a gift of public money. He was an orator of celebrity and a successful practitioner in the courts. He died at an uncertain date in the last decade of the first century. His Institutes of Oratory are the production of an accomplished scholar, a master of style, and an independent thinker.