a severe critic in the time of; a censurer of Homer
Latin word, found 30 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, Letters to his Friends 13.46.1: L. Nostius Zoilus est coheres meus, heres autem patroni sui. ea re utrumque scripsi, ut et mihi cum illo causam amicitiae scire …
Ovid, Remedia amoris 366: Quisquis es, ex illo, Zoile, nomen habes.
Martial, Epigrammata 3.82.1: Conviva quisquis Zoili potest esse,