Orbilius Pupillus, L. (Lucius), approximately 114 B.C.-approximately 14 B.C.
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L. Orbilius Pupillus (Lucius Orbilius Pupillus), approximately 114 B.C.-approximately 14 B.C.
Orbilius Pupillus, L. (Lucius), ca. 114-ca. 14 B.C.
Orbilius Pupillus, Lucius, approximately 114 B.C.-approximately 14 B.C.
Pupillus, L. Orbilius (Lucius Orbilius), approximately 114 B.C.-approximately 14 B.C.
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found: His Grammatica [CF] 1991:PHI CD ROM #5.3, Latin Canon, bibliographic screen (L. Orbilius Pupillus)
found: 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)
found: 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)
found: 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)
notfound: NUC pre-56.
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1995-07-31: new
2013-03-07: revised
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