Lucius Orbilius Pupillus
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Lucius Orbilius Pupillus
Orbilius Pupillus, Lucius (c.112–c.17 BC), of Beneventum, a grammarian, famous as the schoolmaster of Horace, who calls him plagosus, ‘whacker’, from beatings inflicted during lessons on Livius Andronicus' version of Homer's Odyssey. There is an account of him in Suetonius.
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Lucius Orbilius Pupillus
Lucius Orbilius Pupillus (114 BC – c. 14 BC) was a Latin grammarian of the 1st century BC, who taught a school, first at Benevento and then 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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