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Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)
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English (LSJ)
ιδος, ἡ,
A emery-powder, used by lapidaries, Dsc.5.147; σμίρις v.l. in Dsc. l.c., Orib.13 λ 24, Paul.Aeg.7.3 s.v. λίθοι; σμιρίς, ἡ, Hsch., Aët.2.26; gen.σμίρεως Orib.15.1.20 codd.; cf. ζμιρριεῖα: —also σμιρίτης [ῑτ] λίθος, ὁ, LXX Jb.41.7 (v.l. σμιριτος).
