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)
ἁβρότας 1 splendour, prosperity, cf. ἁβρός (b) ὁ δὲ καλόν τι νέον λαχὼν ἁβρότατος ἔπι μεγάλας ἐξ ἐλπίδος πέταται ὑποπτέροις ἀνορέαις (P. 8.89) ἐπεὶ ἀμφ' Ἑλένᾳ πυρωθέντων Τρώων ἔλυσε δόμους ἁβρότατος (P. 11.34)
