Editing Remmius Palaemon (section)

== Life <span class="anchor" id="Biography"></span><span class="anchor" id="History"></span>==
From [[Suetonius' minor works|Suetonius]],<ref>[[Suetonius]], ''De Grammaticis'', 23.</ref> we learn that he was originally a [[slavery|slave]] who obtained his freedom and taught grammar at [[Rome]].<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Palaemon, Quintus Remmius |volume=20 |page=523}}</ref> Suetonius preserves several anecdotes of his profligate and arrogant character.<ref name=EB1911/> He was said to be so steeped in luxury that he bathed several times a day. Tiberius and Claudius both felt he was too dissolute to allow boys and young men to be entrusted to him. He referred to the great grammarian [[Marcus Terentius Varro|Varro]] as a "pig". However, he had a remarkable memory and wrote poetry in unusual meters, and he enjoyed a great reputation as a teacher;<ref name=EB1911/> [[Quintilian]] and [[Aulus Persius Flaccus|Persius]] are said to have been his pupils.<ref name=EB1911/>