LC control no. | nr 95027998 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Orbilius Pupillus, L. (Lucius), approximately 114 B.C.-approximately 14 B.C. |
Variant(s) | 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. |
Birth date | -0113~ |
Death date | -0013~ |
Found in | 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) |
Not found in | NUC pre-56. |