na constituit.' The
appointment must therefore have been made by A.D. 79. The
professorship is referred to by Mart. ii. 90, 1,

'Quintiliane, vagae moderator summe iuventae,
gloria Romanae, Quintiliane, togae.'

Cf. Pliny, _Ep._ ii. 14, 10, 'Ita certe ex Quintiliano, praeceptore
meo, audisse memini.' Quintilian's career as a teacher lasted for
twenty years.

i. prooem. 1, 'Post impetratam studiis meis quietem, quae per viginti
annos erudiendis iuvenibus impenderam.'

Teuffel thinks that the _Institutio_ was written A.D. 89-91, in which
case Quintilian's career as professor was from A.D. 68 to 88;
Peterson[91] thinks that Quintilian dated his educational work as from
A.D. 70 to 90, and that the _Institutio_ was begun A.D. 92.

Quintilian grew rich by the practice of his profession, from which he
ultimately retired. Iuv. 7, 186,

'Hos inter sumptus sestertia Quintiliano,
ut multum, duo sufficient; res nulla minoris
constabit patri, quam filius. "Unde igitur tot
Quintilianus habet saltus?"'

Quint. ii. 12, 12, 'quando et praecipiendi munus iam pridem deprecati
sumus et in foro quoque dicendi, quia honestissimum finem putamus,
desinere dum desideraremur.'

After his retirement Quintilian was appointed tutor of Domitian's
grandnephews, sons of his niece Flavia Domitilla and his cousin
Flavius Clemens.

Quint. iv. prooem. 2, 'Cum mihi Domitianus Augustus sororis suae
nepotum delegaverit curam.'

Through the influence of Clemens, he obtained the consulship.

Auson. _grat. act._ p. 23 (Schenkl), 'Quintilianus consularia per
Clementem ornamenta sortitus honestamenta potius videtur quam insignia
potestatis habuisse.'

Cf. Iuv. 7, 197,

'Si Fortuna volet, fies de rhetore consul;
si volet haec eadem, fies de consule rhetor.'

His gratitude led him into fulsome flattery of Domitian.

x. 1, 91, 'Germanicum Augustum ab institutis studiis deflexit cura
terrarum, parumque dis visum est esse eum maximum poetarum' (cf. iv.
prooem. 3-5).

Quintilian married late in life. His wife died at the age of eighteen,
his younger son soon afterwards at the age of five, the elder one
subsequently at the age of nine.

vi. prooem. S 2, 'Illum, de quo summa conceperam et in quo spem unicam
senectutis reponebam, repetito volnere orbitatis amisi'; par. 9, 'Non
flosculos, sicut prior, sed iam decimum aetatis ingressus annum,
certos ac deformatos fructus ostenderat'; par. 4, 'erepta prius mihi
matre eorumdem, quae