Gaius Julius Victor (4th century AD) was a
Roman
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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
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, whom he closely follows in many places.
References
Attribution:
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*''Rhetores Latini minores'',
Karl Halm (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 writers in Latin
Ancient Roman rhetoricians
Victor, Gaius