Brewer's: Milesian Story

or Tale (A). One very wanton and lubricious. So called from the Milesiæ Fabulæ, the immoral tendency of which was notorious. (See above.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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