The corpus record — Latin

paedagogus

paedagogus · m

a slave who took the children to school and had the charge of them at home

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Where it lives

Nero 5 · 6.4/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Bacchides 4 · 4.05/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
De Ira 3 · 1.35/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

paedăgōgus — Lewis & Short

paedăgōgus, i, m., = paidagwgo/s, lit.

I a slave who took the children to school and had the charge of them at home, a governor, preceptor, pedagogue (cf. praeceptor).

I 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.—

(b) Adj.: lex paedagoga, Paul. Nol. Carm. 21, 681 (cf.: lex paedagogus, Vulg. Gal. 3, 24). —

II Transf.

A 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. —

B A pedant: hic dux, hic ille est paedagogus, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 32; cf. Suet. Ner. 37.

In the wild

paedagogus Plautus, Mercator 1.1
paedagogum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.110.1
paedagogi Historia Augusta, Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 14
paedagogo Suetonius, Nero 22.1
paedagogus Terence, Phormio 1.2
paedagogis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.8

6 of 65 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. paedagogus (scan p. 498; entry #8071).

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