Brewer's: Hellanodicæ

Umpires of the public games in Greece. They might chastise with a stick anyone who created a disturbance. Lichas, a Spartan nobleman, was so punished by them.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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