Paedagōgus
(
παιδαγωγός, “boy-leader”). The name
among the Greeks for the slave who had the duty of looking after the son of his master while
in boyhood, instructing him in certain rules of good manners, and attending him whenever he
went out, especially to school and to the palaestra and gymnasium. With the Romans in earlier
times it was an old slave or freedman who had a similar duty as
custos;
but after it became the custom to have even children taught to speak Greek, his place was
filled by a Greek slave, who bore the Greek name and had the special duty of instructing his
pupils in Greek. See
Education;
Ludus Litterarius.