πάθη
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)
ἡ,
A passive state, Pl.Ti.80b; what is done or happens to a person orthing, opp. πρᾶξις, Id.Lg.903b, cf. Epin. 983d; τὰς ἐκεῖ . . π. what happened there, S.Aj.295; πᾶσαν τὴν ἑωντοῦ π. all that had happened to him, Hdt.1.122. 2 suffering, misfortune, Pi.P.3.42,97 (pl.), S.OC7, etc.; πάθαι, opp. εὐτυχίαι, Hdt.3.40; ἡ π. τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν blindness, Id.2.111; of morbid affections, τὰς π. τὰς ἐν τῷ ὀστέῳ γινομένας Hp.VC13; ἡ τοῦ πνίγους π. suffocation, Pl.Phlb. 32a, cf. Lg.728c, 865e, 866b.
German (Pape)
[Seite 437] ἡ, = πάθος, Leiden, Unfall, Unglück; ματρὸς βαρείᾳ σὺν πάθᾳ, Pind. P. 3, 42; ὀξείαισι πάθαις, P. 3, 97, öfter; μελέαν πάθαν κλαῖον, Soph. Ant. 965; O. C. 7; plur., Ai. 238; Hippocr.; Her. 1, 122; τὴν πάθην τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν, Augenleiden, Blindheit, 2, 111; sp. D., Leon. Al. 12 (VI, 221); auch in attischer Prosa, ἡ παρὰ φύσιν τοῦ πνίγους πάθη Plat. Phil. 32 a, τιμωρία δὲ ἀδικίας ἀκόλουθος πάθη Legg. V, 728 c, u. öfter in diesen Büchern; bes. bei Sp., wie Luc. dea Syr. 22, App. Mthrid. 77.
