χαραδριός
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
English (LSJ)
ὁ, a
A bird, prob. the thickknee or Norfolk plover, Charadrius oedicnemus, Ar.Av.266,1141, Hp.Int.37, Arist.HA593b15, 615a1, LXXLe.11.19, De.14.17(18); it was very greedy, hence prov. χαραδριοῦ βίον ζῆν, of a glutton, Pl.Grg.494b; the sight of it was held to be a cure for the jaundice, cf. Hippon.52, Plu.2.681c, Ael.NA17.13.
