αὐτὸν κέκρουκας τὸν βατῆρα τοῦ λόγου → you have struck the very threshold of the argument, you have struck the most important and chiefmost point
[Seite 1042] Hom. Iliad. 16, 558, von den Alten verschieden aufgefaßt, s. Lehrs Aristarch. ed. 2 p. 307.