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Pupillus Orbilius

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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A Latin grammarian of the 1st century A.D., who had a school at Rome, where the poet Horace was one of his pupils. Horace (Epistles, ii.) criticizes his old schoolmaster and describes him as plagosus (a flogger), and Orbilius has become proverbial as a disciplinarian pedagogue.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pupillus Orbilius'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pupillus-orbilius.html. 1910.
 
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