/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Milesian Story or Tale (A)
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One very wanton and ludicrous. So called from the Milesiœ Fabulœ, the immoral tendency of which was notorious. (See above.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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