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

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