Orbilian

English Etymology After the nomen (middle name) of the ancient Latin grammarian Lucius Orbilius Pupillus (114 BC – c. 14 BC), whom the poet Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), his pupil, criticized as la plāgōsus (fond of flogging). Adjective Of or relating to disciplinarianism in teaching. en 1903 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher Studies in Napoleonic Statemanship Germany 278 The methods of punishment were drastic and Orbilian; the curriculum and the textbooks two centuries behind the age; the informing spirit ecclesiasticism cut and dried. en 1997 David Solway Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture and Education 266 I am not lobbying for the revival of the Orbilian classroom, but merely suggesting that we have seriously erred en eponyms