Lucius Orbilius Pupillus (114 BC – c. 14 BC) was a

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of the 1st century BC, who taught at school, first at Benevento and then at

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, 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

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. One of his slaves,

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, went on to become a grammarian himself, and was purchased by Scribonia, wife of the emperor

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Bibliography

* Suetonius ''Lives of the Eminent Grammarians'', chapter 4
Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
v. 3 p. 40 114 BC births 10s BC deaths People from the Province of Benevento Grammarians of Latin Latin writers known only from secondary sources 1st-century BC educators {{ancientRome-bio-stub