"Si quos Orbilius ferula scuticaque cecidit."
— Domitius Marsus

January 1, 1970

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Poets from Rome
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Quoted by Suetonius, On Grammarians, 9. On the harsh schoolmaster , whom Horace (Epistles, ii) likewise labels a plagosus ('flogger'). Translated by J. C. Rolfe, LCL 38 (1914)