ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει → easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)
(see also τέμνω): cleave, cut, devastate, divide, hew, pillage, ravage, sever, shear, split, cut down, cut off, cut up, hew down, lay waste, of trees, perform a surgical operation
