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Antisʹthenes

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Founder of the Cynic School in Athens. He wore a ragged cloak, and carried a wallet and staff like a beggar. Socʹratēs wittily said he could “see rank pride peering through the holes of Antisʹthenēsʹ rags.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Anthony
Anthroposophus
Anti-Christ
Antigonē
Antimony
Antinomian. [Greek, anti-nomos, exempt from the law.]
Antinous
Antipathy (of human beings)
Antipathy (of animals)
Anti-pope
Antisthenes
Antoninus
Antony
Antrustions
Ants
Anubis
Anvil
Any-how
Aõnian
A ontrance. (French.)
Ape

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