LESSON Copy link • LESSONInstruction of a teacher, schola (☞ not lectio). Figuratively, to read anybody a lesson, aliquem verbis castigare; aliquem verberare (Quint., Cic., in Ep., 16, 26, in.); alicui verberationem alicujus rei dare (ib., 27, in.). Task given to a pupil for an exercise, discenda or ediscenda, plur.; or, perhaps, pensum.