σύμπτωσις
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 (LSJ)
εως, ἡ,
A falling together, collapsing, Hp. Aph.1.3, Epid.6.3.1; τῆς οἰκίας Str.14.5.4, cf. 5.3.7, S.E.M.5.91, CIG3293 (Smyrna). II falling together, meeting, [ποταμῶν] Plb. 3.49.6; ὀρῶν Id.2.14.8; point of meeting or intersection, Archim. Sph.Cyl.1.10, al., Str.2.1.10,37, Ptol.Geog.1.3.1, Dam.Pr.29. 2 in hostile sense, attack, onset, Plb.1.57.7, etc. 3 = συνέμπτωσις, Sch.Ar.Th.21, A.D.Adv.151.5, Synt.52.8 (v.l. συνέμ-). 4 σ. φωνηέντων collision of vowels, Phld.Rh.1.163S. III incident, accident, Arist.HA585b25; circumstance, Plb.3.49.5. IV a disease of the eye, prob. contraction of the pupil, Gal.14.777; also, contraction of the throat, Aret.CA1.4.
German (Pape)
[Seite 990] ἡ, das Zusammenfallen, -treffen; τῶν ποταμῶν πρὸς ἀλλήλους Pol. 3, 49, 6; ὀρῶν, 2, 14, 8, u. öfter; πετρῶν, Apolld., u. A.; auch Vereinigung, Verbindung, Sp.
