πείθεται πᾶς ἥδιον ἢ βιάζεται (Dio Cassius, Historiae Romanae 8.36.3) → it's always more pleasant to be persuaded than to be forced
[Seite 281] ἡ, = ξυλεία, Holzwerk, Pol. 10, 27, 10 v. l.