ictis

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)

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ictis: ĭdis, f., = ἴκτις,
I a kind of weasel, Plin. 29, 4, 16, § 50: nunc ictim tenes, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 81.