write
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
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
write books, etc.: see compose.
give an account of in writing: P. συγγράφειν (acc.).
write poetry: Ar. and P. ποιεῖν.
inscribe: Ar. and P. ἐπιγράφειν, P. ἀναγράφειν.
write down: Ar. and P. συγγράφειν, P. and V. γράφειν.
they wrote him down enemy of theirs and their allies: P. ἐχθρὸν αὑτῶν ἀνέγραψαν καὶ τῶν συμμάχων αὐτόν (Dem. 122).
write in addition: Ar. and P. παραγράφειν, P. προσγράφειν, προσπαραγράφειν.
write in answer: see answer.
Write in or on: P. and V. ἐγγράφειν.
which (wanderings) you must write on the recording tablets of your mind: V. ἣν (πλάνη) ἐγγράφου σὺ μνήμοσιν δέλτοις φρενῶν (Aesch., Prometheus Vinctus 789; cp. Soph., Philoctetes 1325).
a tablet with signs written upon it: V. δέλτος ἐγγεγραμμένη συνθήματα (Soph., Trachiniae 157).
write underneath: P. ὑπογράφειν (τί τινι).
