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Antonius Atticus was a rhetorician of ancient Rome who lived in the age of Seneca the Elder and Quintilian. [1]

Ancient Rome History of Rome from the 8th-century BC to the 5th-century

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Lucius, or Marcus, Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman rhetorician and writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Cordoba, Hispania. Seneca lived through the reigns of three significant emperors; Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula. He was the father of Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus and the stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger (Lucius) who was tutor of Nero.

Quintilian ancient Roman rhetor

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman educator and rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian, although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.

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  1. Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 2. p. 19, ed. Bip.

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