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PUPILLUS ORBILIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PUPILLUS

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PUPILLUS ORBILIUS

ORBILIUS , a Latin grammarian of the 1st

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

century A.D., who had a school at

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Rome, where the poet

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

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

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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

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ORBILIUS, PUPILLUS

Orbilius has become proverbial as a disciplinarian

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PEDAGOGUE

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