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Aphrodisius, Scribonius

a Roman grammarian, originally a slave and disciple of Orbilius, was purchased by Scribonia, the first wife of Augustus, and by her manumitted. (Suet. de Illustr. Gram. 19.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.