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  • SCRIBONIUS APHRODISIUS, the slave and disciple of Orbilius, who was afterwards redeemed and presented with his freedom by Scribonia [889], the daughter of Libo who had been the wife of Augustus, taught in the time of Verrius; whose books on Orthography he also revised, not without some severe remarks on his pursuits and conduct.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • "Ah! it is just as I expected," says my friend Orbilius at this point:

    Cambridge Essays on Education Various

  • He left a son, named also Orbilius, who, like his father, was a professor of grammar.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Where is Orbilius now, that wreck of learning lost?

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • _ 9, '[Orbilius] vixit prope ad centesimum aetatis annum, amissa iam pridem memoria, ut versus Bibaculi docet,

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Orbilius has informed us, that he redeemed this work from the oblivion into which it had fallen, and took care to have it published with the author's name.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He received instruction, both in Latin and Greek, from Orbilius, [52] a teacher of conservative tendencies.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Orbilius, that Marvell was initiated into the mysteries of the Latin grammar, and was, as he tells us, put to his

    Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

  • Orbilius of his first success, to see him with a quick flush on his face take from the teacher's hands the wax tablet on which his son had written "the best exercise in the class."

    Roads from Rome 1901

  • Livius Andronicus, which he studied under "Orbilius of the rods," but even the obscurities of the Latin subjunctive and ablative cannot have blinded us entirely to the romance of the desperate siege of Alesia and the final struggle which the Gauls made to drive back the invader.

    The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892

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