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)
tormenta, ae, f., Nbf. von tormentum, Lact. div. inst. 4, 16, 9; vgl. S. Brandt in Wölfflins Archiv 5, 286 f.