Orbilius Pupillus

Role: grammar professor · First appears: Grammarians 9

Life events

• Orbilius Pupillus was left an orphan when both parents died in enemy plots.(Grammarians 9)
  • “being left an orphan, by the death of his parents, who both fell a sacrifice to the plots of their enemies on the same day”
• Orbilius Pupillus was decorated and promoted to serve on horseback after joining the troops.(Grammarians 9 · 📍 Macedonia)
  • “He then joined the troops in Macedonia, when he was first decorated with the plumed helmet, and, afterwards, promoted to serve on horseback.”
• Orbilius Pupillus resumed his studies and became a professor in his own country.(Grammarians 9)
  • “Having completed his military service, he resumed his studies, which he had pursued with no small diligence from his youth upwards; and, having been a professor for a long period in his own country”
• Orbilius Pupillus began teaching in Rome with more reputation than profit.(Grammarians 9 · 📍 Rome)
  • “at last, during the consulship of Cicero, made his way to Rome, where he taught with more reputation than profit.”
• Orbilius Pupillus published Perialogos, containing complaints about professors’ injurious treatment.(Grammarians 9)
  • “He also published a book with the title of Perialogos; containing complaints of the injurious treatment to which professors submitted”
• Orbilius Pupillus eventually lost his memory after living nearly a hundred years.(Grammarians 9)
  • “He lived till he was near a hundred years old; but he had long lost his memory”

Grammarians 9

• child: Orbilius “He left a son, named also Orbilius, who, like his father, was a professor of grammar.”
• with Varro (Varro questioned Orbilius Pupillus while he was being examined as a witness in court.) “Varro, the advocate on the other side, put the question to him”
• pupil: Horace “His sour temper betrayed itself, not only in his disputes with the sophists opposed to him, whom he lashed on every occasion, but also towards his scholars, as Horace tells us, who calls him ‘a flogger;’”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.