-Litterator- and -grammaticus- are related nearly as elementary teacher and teacher of languages with us; the latter designation belonged by earlier usage only to the teacher of Greek, not to a teacher of the mother-tongue.

-Litteratus- is more recent, and denotes not a schoolmaster but a man of culture.
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It is at any rate a true Roman picture, which Plautus (Bacch.

431) produces as a specimen of the good old mode of training children:-- ...

-ubi revenisses domum, Cincticulo praecinctus in sella apud magistrum adsideres; Si, librum cum legeres, unam peccavisses syllabam, Fieret corium tam maculosum, quam est nutricis pallium-.
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