μολυβδοβόλον

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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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Greek Monolingual

μολυβδοβόλον, τὸ (Μ)
πυροβόλο όπλο, τουφέκι.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < μόλυβδος + -βόλον (< βάλλω), πρβλ. λαγω-βόλον].