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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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