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pressed but spirited history of Greek and Roman of the Declamations, the two others the Institu.
literature, in which the merits and defects of the tions only.
great masters, in so far as they bear upon the The Institutions have been translated into Engobject in view, are seized upon, and exhibited with lish by Guthrie, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1756, 1805,
great precision, force and truth. and by Patsall, 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1774; into
One hundred and sixty-four declamations are French by M. de Pure, 2 vols. 4to. Paris, 1663;
extant under the name of Quintilian, nineteen of by the Abbd Gedoyn, 4to. Paris, 1718, 12mo.
considerable length; the remaining one hundred and 1752, 1770, 1810, 1812, 1820; and by C. V.
forty-five, which form the concluding portion only Ouizille, 8vo. Paris, 1829; into Italian by Orazio
of a collection which originally extended to three Toscanella, 4to. Venez. 1568, 1584; and by Garilli,
hundred and eighty-eight pieces, are mere ske- Vercelli, 1780; into German by H. P. C. Henke,
letons or fragments. No one believes these to be 3 vols. 8vo. Helmstaedt, 1775-1777; republished
the genuine productions of Quintilian, although with corrections and additions, by J. Billerbeck,
some of them were unquestionably received as 3 vols. 8vo. Helmstaedt, 1825.
such by Lactantius and Jerome, and few suppose The Declamations have been translated into
that they proceeded from any one individual. English by Warr, 8vo. Lond. 1686 (published
They apparently belong not only to different per- anonymously); into French by Du Teil, 4to. Paris,
sons, but to different periods, and neither in style 1658 (the larger declamations only); into Italian
nor in substance do they offer any thing which is by Orazio Toscanella, 4to. Venez. 1586; and into
either attractive or useful. The conjecture, founded German by J. H. Steffens, 8vo. Zelle, 1767 (a seon a sentence in Trebellius Pollio (Trig. Tyran. lection only). [W. R.]
iv.), that they ought to be ascribed to the younger QUINTILIA'NUS, NO'NIUS. 1. SEX. NoPostumus, does not admit of proof or refutation. NIUS L. F. L. N. QUINTILIANUS, was consul A. D.
At the end of the eighth book of the Institu- 8 with M. Furius Camillus (Fasti Capit.; Dion
tions, we read " Sed de hoc satis, quia eundem Cass. lv. 33). It appears from coins that he was
locum plenius in eo libro quo causas cosruplne also triumvir of the mint under Augustus (Eckhel,
eloquentiae reddebamus, tractavimus." These words vol. v. p. 262).
have very naturally led some scholars to conclude 2. SEX. NONIUS QUINTILIANUS, probably a
that the well-known anonymous Dialogus de Ooa- son of the preceding, was consul suffectus in the
toribus, written in the sixth year of Vespasian reign of Caligula, A. D. 40 (Fasti).
(see c. 17), and which often, although upon no QUINTI/LIUS CONDIA'NUS. [CONDIAgood authority, bears the second title Sive de NUS.]
Causis Corruptae Eloquenticae, ought to be assigned QUTNTI'LIUS MAXIMUS. [CONDIANUS.]
to Quintilian. This hypothesis, for many reasons, QUINTI'LIUS, a gem-engraver, of unknown
cannot be maintained, but the authorship of the time. Two of his works are extant; the one
tract may with greater propriety be discussed under representing Neptune drawn by two sea-horses,
TACITus, among whose works it is now generally cut in beryl (Stosch, No. 57; Bracci, pl. 100);
printed. the other a naked Mercury (Spilsbury Gems, No.
The first MS. of Quintilian was discovered in 27). [P. S.]
the monastery of St. Gall by Poggio the Floren- QUINTILLUS, M. AURE'LIUS, the brother
tine, when he was attending the council of Con- of the emperor M. Aurelius Claudius Gothicus,
stance, and is probably the same with the Codex was elevated to the throne by the troops whom he
Laurentianus, now preserved at Florence. commanded at Aquileia, in A. D. 270. But as the
The Editio Princeps of the Institutions was army at Sirmium, where Claudius died, had pro.printed at Rome by Phil. de Lignamine, fol. 1470, claimed Aurelian emperor, Quintillus put an end
with a letter prefixed from J. A. Campanus to to his own life, seeing himself deserted by his ownI
Cardinal F. Piccolomini, and a second edition was soldiers, to whom the rigour of his discipline
printed at the same place in the same year, by had given offence. Most of the ancient writers
Sweynheim and Pannartz, with an address from say that he reigned only seventeen days; but
Andrew Bishop of Aleria to Pope Paul the Second. Since we find a great number of his coins, it is
These were followed by the edition of Jenson, fol. probable that he enjoyed the imperial dignity for a
Venet. 1471, and at least eight more appeared few months, as Zosimus states. He had two
before the end of the fifteenth century. The nine- children. His character is said to have been unteen larger Declamations and The Institutions were blemished, and his praises are sounded in the
first published together at Treviso, fol. 1482. same lofty strain as those of his brother. [See
One hundred and thirty-six of the shorter de- Vol. I. p. 777.] (Trebell. Poll. Claud. 10, 12,
clamations were first published at Parma by Tadeus 13; Eutrop. ix. 12; Vict. Epit. 34; Zosim. i.
Ugoletus in 1494, were reprinted at Paris in 47; Eckhel, vol. vii. pp. 477, 478.)
1509, and again at the same place with the notes
and emendations of Petrus Aerodius in 1563. The
remaining nine were added from an ancient MS.
by Petrus Pithoeus (Paris, 8vo. 1580), who ap- 4
pended to them fifty-one pieces of a similar description bearing the title "Ex Calpurnio Flacco
Excerptae X. Rhetorum Minorum." -
The most important editions of Quintilian are, A
that of Burmann, 2 vols. 4to., Lug. Bat. 1720;
that of Gesner, 4to. Gott. 1738; and best of all,
that begun by Spalding and finished by Zumpt, 6 COIN OF QUINTILLUS.
vols. 8vo. Lips. 1798-1829. The first of the QUlNTILLUS, PLAU'TIUS. 1. Consul in
above contains both the Institutions and the whole A. D. 159 with Statius Priscus (Fasti).