Brewer's: Antisthenes

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

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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