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Brewer's: Orbilian Stick
(The). A cane or birch-rod.
Orbilius was the schoolmaster who taught Horace, and Horace calls him Plagosus (the flogger). (Ep. ii. 71.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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