He was educated in Hispania , a part of the Roman Empire which in the 1st century produced several notable Latin writers , including Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger , Lucan and Quintilian , and Martial 's contemporaries Licinianus of Bilbilis , Decianus of Emerita and Canius of Gades .
During Martial 's time , Trajan was the first non-Italian Roman Emperor .