stick, rod
Latin word, found 16 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Eclogues 10.25: florentis ferulas et grandia lilia quassans.
Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.546: Quadrupedem ferula dum malus urget eques,
Suetonius, Caligula 20.1: … des componere coactos; eos autem, qui maxime displicuissent, scripta sua spongia linguaue delere iussos, nisi ferulis obiurgari aut flumine proximo mergi maluissent.
All forms of ferula