person
Paeonius
also: Paeoni
A rhetor (teacher of declamation), described by Cicero as very practised and able, who in 54 BC was instructing his nephew, young Quintus Cicero. Otherwise unknown.
Reading notes
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.3 §4 with his rhetor Paeonius
A rhetor was a teacher of declamation, the staple exercise of Roman higher education. Cicero contrasts Paeonius's declamatory drill with his own more philosophical, thesis-based method of training young Quintus.