ὑπερβαίνειν

From LSJ

πείθεται πᾶς ἥδιον ἢ βιάζεται (Dio Cassius, Historiae Romanae 8.36.3) → it's always more pleasant to be persuaded than to be forced

Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)

(see also ὑπερβαίνω): climb, cross, exceed, scale, surmount, transgress, get over, go over, pass

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Lexicon Thucydideum

transcendere, to climb over, 2.96.1, 3.20.1, 3.22.5. 3.23.1. 3.23.1 3.24.2. 3.24.3.
praetergredi, to pass by, bypass, 4.118.4, 4.118.4

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