ἀποκαυλίζω
From LSJ
Μηκέθ᾽ ὅλως περὶ τοῦ οἷόν τινα εἶναι τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι τοιοῦτον. → Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
English (LSJ)
(καυλός)
A break off by the stalk: hence, break short off, E.Supp.717, Th.2.76:—Pass., to be so broken, to be fractured across, Hp.Fract.45, Art.33.
German (Pape)
[Seite 306] eigtl. den Stengel abbrechen, ganzdurchbrechen, Hippocr. im pass.; abschlagen, Eur. Suppl. 117, nach Canter's Conj.; τὸ προέχον τῆς ἐμβολῆς Thuc. 2, 76.