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Major Horace Bell describes the difference between a baile and a fandango in Mexican California history and Arnoldo De Leon describes the baile in eighteenth-century San Antonio.
They, who have lately written with most care, have, I believe, taken the rule of Horace for their guide; that is, not to be too hasty in receiving of words, but rather to stay till custom has made them familiar to us:
I suppose it is possible that Valentinus repeated Horace's metaphor in different, more dramatic terms a hundred years later.
Perhaps it was formed originaly as a macaronic phrase by students, because of its meter; its earliest OED citation is in the 16th century, when the study of Horace would undoubtedly have been part of a scholar's curriculum (including the memorizing of many of the odes).
Branding fell from favor in the18 th century, but students were still flogged or tied to chairs (for more on corporal punishment, click ). In the early 19 th century, school reformer Horace Mann reported that he saw 328 floggings in one school during the course of a week.