Orbilʹian Stick (The).
A cane or birch-rod.
Orbilius was the schoolmaster who taught Horace, and Horace calls him Plagoʹsus (the flogger) (Ep. ii. 71.)
A cane or birch-rod.
Orbilius was the schoolmaster who taught Horace, and Horace calls him Plagoʹsus (the flogger) (Ep. ii. 71.)
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.