κλεψίθυρος

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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)

Source

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

κλεψίθυρος: ὁ, ὁ κρυφίως εἰσερχόμενος, Στεφ. Ἁλ. Cod. Reg. 2325 fol. 69 α.

Greek Monolingual

κλεψίθυρος, ὁ (Μ)
αυτός που εισέρχεται κάπου κρυφά.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < κλεψι- (< κλέπτω) + -θυρος (< θύρα), πρβλ. αμφί-θυρος, κρουσί-θυρος. Σύνθ. του τύπου τερψί-μβροτος].