The story
After the nomen (middle name) of the ancient Latin grammarian Lucius Orbilius Pupillus (114 BC – c. 14 BC), whom the poet Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), his pupil, criticized as plāgōsus (fond of flogging).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Orbilian
Today it means: Of or relating to disciplinarianism in teaching. Full definition →