τέμω
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)
A v. τέμνω.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1091] alter Stamm von τέμνω, als praes. nur Il. 13, 707 vorkommend, wo Wolf das fut. τεμεῖ mit Unrecht aufgenommen hat, s. Spitzner zur Stelle u. Buttmann ausf. gr. Gr. I, 388.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
τέμω: ἀρχαῖος τύπος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτ. τέμνω, Ἰλ. Ν. 707· ἴδε Spitzn. ἐν τόπῳ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
1sbj. ao.2 de τέμνω.
2prés. 3ᵉ sg. τέμει;
c. τέμνω.
English (Autenrieth)
aor. τάμε, inf. ταμέειν, mid. aor. inf. ταμέσθαι, pass. perf. part. τετμημένον: cut, cut up, off, out, etc., mid. subjectively; of ‘felling’ or ‘lopping’ trees, ‘hewing’ beams, ‘marking off’ an enclosure, ‘furrowing’ the earth with the plough, ‘cutting off’ (intercepting, driving away) cattle, ‘cutting’ the waves in sailing, Il. 9.580, Il. 13.707, Il. 18.528, Il. 21.38, Od. 3.175 ; ὅρκια, ‘conclude’ a treaty, see ὅρκιον.
