incrust
From LSJ
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
v. trans.
Grow round: Ar. and P. περιφύεσθαι (dat.) (Plat., Rep. 612A).