Word: quintilian
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...least 25 times. These, plus most of his other nominations for great books are on the recommended list of How to Read a Book. However, 28 authors that he recommended in 1940 have disappeared from the new edition. The missing authors include Henry Adams and Trotsky, along with Quintilian and Maimonides. They were banished because subsequent readings convinced Adler that they were not really first-rate, or because they provoked too little discussion at his seminars...