Excerpt from Horace

Twice in his old age Horace alludes rather disparagingly to his schooldays in Rome: he was taught, he says, out of a translation from Homer by an inferior Latin writer (ep. II, i, 62, and his master, a retired soldier, one Orbilius, was fond of the rod (ep. II, i, I observe that the sympathies of Horatian editors and commentators, themselves mostly schoolmasters, are with Orbilius as a much enduring paedagogue rather than with his exasperated pupil. We know from other sources that the teacher was a good scholar and a noted teacher, and that, dying in his hundredth year, he was honoured by a marble statue in his native town of Beneventum, but like our English Orbilius, Dr. Busby, he is known to most men only through Horace's resentful epithet, - a great man, said Sir Roger de Coverley, a great man, he whipped my grandfather, a very great man I.

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