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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