Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
rudder: P. and V. πηδάλιον, τό, or pl., V. οἴαξ, ὁ (also Plato but rare P.), πλῆκτρα, τά (Soph., Fragment).
