Gaius Julius Victor (4th century AD) was a
Roman
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* Rome, the capital city of Italy
* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lett ...
writer of
rhetoric
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, possibly of
Gaulish
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origin. His extant manual is of some importance as facilitating the textual criticism of
Quintilian
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (; 35 – 100 AD) 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 Quintilia ...
, whom he closely follows in many places.
References
Attribution:
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*''Rhetores Latini minores'',
Karl Halm
Karl Felix Halm (also ''Carl''; ''Karl Felix Ritter von Halm'' after 1872; 5 April 1809 – 5 October 1882), was a German classical scholar and critic.
Life
He was born at Munich. In 1849, having held appointments at Speyer and Hadamar, he ...
(ed.), Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1863
pp. 371-448
* ''C. Julii Victoris Ars rhetorica'', Remo Giomini; Maria Silvana Celentano (eds.) Leipzig: Teubner, 1980.
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4th-century Romans
4th-century Latin writers
Ancient Roman rhetoricians
Victor, Gaius