ὃν οὐ τύπτει λόγος οὐδὲ ῥάβδος → if words don't get through, neither a beating will | if the carrot doesn't work, the stick will not work either | whom words do not strike, neither does the rod
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P. βλάξ, ὁ or ἡ, or use adj. adj. P. and V. ἄφρων, ἄνους, ἠλίθιος (Eur., Cycl.); see foolish, mad.
