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.
P. ἐκπρεμνίζειν, Ar. and V. ἐξορύσσειν, V. ἐκθαμνίζειν.
Destroy: P. and V. ἀναιρεῖν, καθαιρεῖν, V. ἐκτρίβειν, ἐκθαμνίζειν, ἐξαϊστοῦν; see destroy.
Having all his house utterly uprooted: V. γένους ἅπαντος ῥίζαν ἐξημημένος (ἐξαμᾶν) (Soph., Aj. 1178).
