He was originally a slave and disciple of the grammarian Lucius Orbilius Pupillus, who was also the teacher of the Roman poet Horace.
[1] He was purchased by Scribonia, the second wife of the emperor Augustus, and was by her manumitted.
[3] Aphrodisius is known to have written a treatise on orthography, in opposition to a similar work written by the grammarian Verrius Flaccus,[4] also a freedman, but this work is now lost.
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