[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. [870] Asinius Pollio; see JULIUS, c. xxx. [871] Whether Hermas was the son or scholar of Gnipho, does not appear, [872] Eratosthenes, an Athenian philosopher, flourished in Egypt, under three of the Ptolemies successively. Strabo often mentions him. See xvii. p. 576. [873] Cornelius Helvius Cinna was an epigrammatic poet, of the same age as Catullus. Ovid mentions him, Tristia, xi. 435. [874] Priapus was worshipped as the protector of gardens. [875] Zenodotus, the grammarian, was librarian to the first Ptolemy at Alexandria, and tutor to his sons. [876] For Crates, see before, p. 507. [877] We find from Plutarch that Sylla was employed two days before his death, in completing the twenty-second book of his Commentaries; and, foreseeing his fate, entrusted them to the care of Lucullus, who, with the assistance of Epicadius, corrected and arranged them. Epicadius also wrote on Heroic verse, and Cognomina. [878] Plutarch, in his Life of Caesar, speaks of the loose conduct of Mucia, Pompey's wife, during her husband's absence. [879] Fam. Epist. 9. [880] Cicero ad Att. xii. 36. [881] See before, AUGUSTUS, c. v. [882] Lenaeus was not singular in his censure of Sallust. Lactantius, 11. 12, gives him an infamous character; and Horace says of him, Libertinarum dico; Sallustius in quas Non minus insanit; quam qui moechatur.--Sat. i. 2. 48. [883] The name of the well known Roman knight, to whom Cicero addressed his Epistles, was Titus Pomponius Atticus. Although Satrius was the name of a family at Rome, no connection between it and Atticus can be found, so that the text is supposed to be corrupt. Quintus Caecilius was an uncle of Atticus, and adopted him. The freedman mentioned in this chapter probably assumed his name, he having been the property of Caecilius; as it was the custom for freedmen to adopt the names of their patrons. [884] Suetonius, TIBERIUS, c. viii. Her name was Pomponia. [885] See AUGUSTUS, c. lxvi. [886] He is mentioned before, c. ix.