Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Paedagogiani

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PAEDAGOGIA'NI, sc. pueri. Young slaves selected for their personal beauty, and brought up in the houses of great people under the empire, to act as companions and attendants for their master's children, in place of the paedagogus of earlier times. (Ammian. xxvi. 6. 15. xxix. 3. 3.) The name, as well as the custom, in some measure, has passed down through the middle ages to the present day; for the modern name of "page" is an evident corruption of the old Latin term.