Background
He was born on 114 BC at Benevento, Italy.
He was born on 114 BC at Benevento, Italy.
Horace (Epistles, ii) criticizes his old schoolmaster and describes him as plagosus (a flogger).
One of his slaves, Scribonius Aphrodisius, went on to become a grammarian himself, and was purchased by Scribonia, wife of the emperor Augustus.