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In Quintilian's time, rhetoric was primarily composed of three aspects: the theoretical, the educational, and the practical. His Insitutio Oratoria draws from a number of sources, and this eclecticism also prevented him from adhering too rigidly to any particular school of thought on the matter, although Cicero stands out among the other sources. Quintilian also refused any short, simple lists of rules; he evidently felt that the study and art of rhetoric could not be so reduced. This might explain the length of Institutio Oratoria, which consists of 12 books.