finger
From LSJ
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)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
subs.
P. and V., δάκτυλος, ὁ. Reckon on one's fingers: Ar. λογίζεσθαι . . . ἀπὸ χειρός. He killed men who had never raised a finger against him and were not enemies: P. διέφθειρε οὔτε χεῖρας ἀνταιρομένους οὔτε πολεμίους (Thuc. 3, 32). v. trans. P. and V. ἅπτεσθαι (gen.), V. ψαύειν (gen.) (rare P.), θιγγάνειν (gen.), προσθιγγάνειν (gen.); see touch.
