Example sentences for: quintilian

How can you use “quintilian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For many are of a countrary opinion, that the English tongue was then in the height of its perfection; that from Jonson's time to ours it has been in a continual declination, like that of the Romans from the age of Virgil to Statius, but Quintilian himself so much complains, under the person of Secundus, in his famous dialogue de Causis corruptae Eloquentiae.

  • From Aristotle and Quintilian to De Saussure, Chomsky, Harris, De Francis, and Pinker--to name a few--man has been studying language for more than two millennia.


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