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)
blasphēmo: āre,
I v.a., = βλασφημέω> (eccl. Lat.), to revile, reproach, Vulg. 1 Par. 20, 7; God and divine things, to blaspheme: Christum, Prud. Apoth. 415: nomen Domini, Tert. adv. Jud. 13 fin.; Vulg. Lev. 24, 11; id. Matt. 9. 3; 26, 65.