ἀναπλεῖν
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 ἀναπλέω): put out to sea, put to sea, sail up stream
Lexicon Thucydideum
contrario flumine vebi, to be carried by a counter-current, 1.104.2, [pro for ἅμα πλεῖν vulgo commonly 6.42.1.]
