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
[Seite 847] ἡ, bes. poet. fem. von ῥοδωπός, sp. D., wie Nonn.D. 10, 176.