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.)
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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.