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.