Quintilian is often accused of being a “compiler,” a wholly unoriginal thinker who simply put all the advice in the classical manuals (among them Cicero’s and Aristotle’s works) into one big collection. Having read a substantial selection of his work, do you find this charge to be fair? Is he offering something new here? Can we say that explaining the pedagogical application of the theories discussed so far will sufficiently warrant him a place in the _Rhetorical Tradition_?