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ORBILIUS, PUPILLUS

ORBILIUS, PUPILLUS , a Latin grammarian of the 1st See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A.D., who had a school at See also:

Rome, where the poet See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace was one of his pupils. Horace (Epistles, ii.) criticizes his old school-See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master and describes him as plagosus (a flogger), and Orbilius has become proverbial as a disciplinarian See also:

PEDAGOGUE

pedagogue.

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