paedăgōgus (noun M) = παιδαγωγός: lit.
* A slave who took the children to school and had the charge of them at home, a governor, preceptor, pedagogue (cf. praeceptor).
* Lit.: non paedagogum jam me, sed Ludum vocat,Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 31: nutrices et paedagogi,Cic. Lael. 20, 74: tamquam quicquam aliud sit sapiens quam humani generis paedagogus,Sen. Ep. 89, 11: de paedagogis hoc amplius, ut aut sint eruditi plane, aut se non esse eruditos sciant,Quint. 1, 1, 8; cf. id. 1, 1, 11; 1, 2, 10; 25; 1, 3, 15; 6, 1, 41 et saep.—Terence jestingly gives the name paedagogus to a young man who accompanied his sweetheart to and from school. Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 94.
* Adj.: lex paedagoga,Paul. Nol. Carm. 21, 681 (cf.: lex paedagogus,Vulg. Gal. 3, 24).
* Transf.
* In gen., a leader, guide, Suet. Galb. 14: unicuique nostrum paedagogum dari deum inferioris notae,Sen. Ep. 110, 1; cf. id. ib. 50, 2; Col. 1, 1, 13.
* A pedant: hic dux, hic ille est paedagogus,Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 32; cf. Suet. Ner. 37.

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