Moses. (Exodus vi. 20.)
“As when the potent rod
Of Amram’s son, in Egypt’s evil day,
Waved round the coast.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, i. 338–40.
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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.