[862] See before, JULIUS, c. xlvi.
[863] A.U.C. 687.
[864] Suetonius gives his life in c. x.
[865] A grade of inferior officers in the Roman armies, of which we have no very exact idea.
[866] Horace speaks feelingly on the subject:
Memini quae plagosum mihi parvo
Orbilium tractare. Epist. xi. i. 70.
I remember well when I was young,
How old Orbilius thwacked me at my tasks.
[867] Domitius Marsus wrote epigrams. He is mentioned by Ovid and Martial.
[868] This is not the only instance mentioned by Suetonius of statues erected to learned men in the place of their birth or celebrity. Orbilius, as a schoolmaster, was represented in a sitting posture, and with the gown of the Greek philosophers.
[869] Tacitus [Annal. cxi. 75] gives the character of Atteius Capito. He was consul A.U.C. 758.