embellishment

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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

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substantive

P. and V. κόσμος, ὁ. Met., P. ποικιλία, ἡ (Dem. 844).

ornament: V. ἄγαλμα, τό, P. καλλωπισμός, ὁ; see adornment.