flictus
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)
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)
flictus: ūs, m. fligo,
I a striking, dashing together, collision (poet.): armamentūm stridor, flictus navium, Pac. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 667 (Trag. Rel. v. 335 ed. Rib.): tum scuta cavaeque Dant sonitum flictu galeae, Verg. l. l.; Sil. 9, 322.
