In the Institutio Oratoria, he mentions a wife who died young, as well as two sons who predeceased him. In addition, he appeared in the courts of law, arguing on behalf of clients. This subsidy enabled Quintilian to devote more time to the school, since it freed him of pressing monetary concerns. The emperor "in general was not especially interested in the arts, but … was interested in education as a means of creating an intelligent and responsible ruling class" ( Kennedy, 19). Among his students were Pliny the Younger, and perhaps Tacitus. Quintilian does not appear to have been a close advisor of the Emperor, which probably ensured his survival after the assassination of Galba in 69.Īfter Galba's death, and during the chaotic Year of the Four Emperors which followed, Quintilian opened a public school of rhetoric. However, in 68, he returned to Rome as part of the retinue of Emperor Galba, Nero's short-lived successor.
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Sometime after Afer's death, Quintilian returned to Hispania, possibly to practice law in the courts of his own province. Afer has been characterized as a more austere, classical, Ciceronian speaker than those common at the time of Seneca the Younger, and he may have inspired Quintilian's love of Cicero. Quintilian evidently adopted Afer as his model and listened to him speak and plead cases in the law courts. "It had always been the custom … for young men with ambitions in public life to fix upon some older model of their ambition … and regard him as a mentor" ( Kennedy, 16). While there, he cultivated a relationship with Domitius Afer, who died in 59. His father, a well-educated man, sent him to Rome to study rhetoric early in the reign of Nero. 35 in Calagurris ( Calahorra, La Rioja) in Hispania.