Quintilian
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Quintilian the elder · Quintilianus
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The Rights of War and Peace (English)
Quintilian the elder, says, “some things although comprehended within the meaning of no law form a natural exception.
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The Rights of War and Peace
Roman rhetorician cited on universal agreement as a mark of truth.
Quintilian says, we hold those things to be true, in which all men agree.
” Vibius asked a person, that appeared armed in the forum, “Who gave you permission to shew your fear in this manner?
We have an example of this in Cicero, Quintilian, and Plutarch, in the person of one of Marius’s tribunes, who was killed by a soldier.
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman rhetorician cited for the legal distinction between partial and complete servitude.
But the Roman lawyers distinguished between partial slavery (servire) and complete slavery (servum esse), Quintilian, 7, 3.
De eadem re ne bis sit actio, Quintilian, 7, 6, 1, either by extinction (ipso jure) or by counteraction (ope exceptionis) of the plaintiff’s right to sue.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman rhetorician cited on the principle that common goods reward whoever's industry claims them.
Hinc Quintilianus dicit, quod omnibus nascitur, industriae esse praemium;
Further, Quintilian remarks that a thing which is created for all is the reward of industry, and Cicero says that things which have been occupied for a long time become the property of those who originally found them unoccupied.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Roman rhetorician cited as having reproved the Romans for torturing their slaves.
and Quintilian, recollecting that they were men, reproved the Romans for such want of humanity.