• DISCIPLE

1. s. discipulus: auditor (a hearer; e.g., Theophrasti). (The words are found in this connection and order.) auditor et discipulus (Cic.): assecla (follower, hanger-on, but only with contemptuous meaning: ☞ sectator, assectator not till Silver Age). Disciples of Aristotle, Zeno, etc., ab Aristotele, a Zenone profecti: our friends the disciples of Plato and Aristotle, nostri illi a Platone et Aristotele: to be a disciple of anybody, disciplina or institutione alicujus uti; uti aliquo magistro; aliquem magistrum habere (to have anybody for one’s master); aliquem audire (to attend anybody’s lectures); esse or profectum esse ab aliquo (to belong to his school of philosophy): aliquem sequi or persequi (to receive his doctrines): to become anybody’s disciple, tradere se alicui in disciplinam. The Romans used to express the disciples of anybody by an attributive; the disciples of Pythagoras, Socrates, etc., Pythagoraei, Socratici, etc.

2. v. *disciplina or ad disciplinam informare aliquem: *ad legem or disciplinam instituere aliquem: religione imbuere aliquem: *institutionibus suis erudire aliquem.