Orbilius Pupillus, L. (Lucius) approximately 114 B.C.-approximately 14 B.C
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- Orbilius Pupillus, L. (Lucius) approximately 114 B.C.-approximately 14 B.C
- Alt names:
- L. Orbilius Pupillus (Lucius Orbilius Pupillus)
Orbilius Pupillus, L. (Lucius)
Orbilius Pupillus, Lucius
Pupillus, L. Orbilius (Lucius Orbilius)
- Field of activity:
- Grammarian
- Notes:
- His Grammatica [CF] 1991: PHI CD ROM #5.3, Latin Canon, bibliographic
screen (L. Orbilius Pupillus)
Pauly-Wissowa: 35. Halbbd., col. 876-877 (L. Orbilius Pupillus
b. 114 in
Beneventum
d. ca. 14 B.C.
grammarian
migrated to Rome, 63 B.C., where he was a teacher of the
sons of wealthy families)
Oxford class. dict., 1st ed.: p. 624 (Orbilius Pupillus, Lucius
of
Beneventum
teacher and grammarian
migrated to Rome aged 50 (63 B.C.)
his pupils included
Horace, who called him plogosus ("whacker") from thrashings administered during lessons on
Andronicus' translation of Homer's Odyssey)
Dict. of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1967: v. 2, p. 41
(Orbilius Pupillus
Roman grammarian and schoolmaster
he lived to be maybe one hundred years
old, and as he was 50 in B.C. 63, he must have born in B.C. 113, and have died shortly before
B.C. 13)
NUC pre-56
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