ἀρχός
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)
ὁ,
A leader, chief, εἷς δέ τις ἀρχὸς ἀνήρ Il.1.144: c. gen., νηῶν 2.493; οἰωνῶν Pi.P.1.7; ruler, Τειχιούσσης SIG3d (Milet., vi B. C.); πόλεως (opp. ἔτης), prob. in E.Fr.1014. 2 = ἄρχων, IG7.3301, al. 3 ἀ. ἑῴας, = dux Orientis, ib.14.1073 (iv A. D.). 4 of a god, SIG56.26 (Argos, v B. C.). II the rectum, Hp.Aph.5.58, Arist. HA507a33, Theol.Ar.51. 2 the anus, Hp.Haem.2, Epid.5.20.
German (Pape)
[Seite 366] ὁ, 1) der Anführer, oft bei Hom., z. B. Iliad. 1, 144. 311. 2, 493. 541. 618 Od. 4, 629. 653. 8, 162. 391. 10, 204. 21, 187; ἵππων, οἰωνῶν Pind. Ol. 7, 71 P. 1, 7; Tragg.; nach Dion. Hal. 5, 74 bes. bei den Thessaliern üblich. – 2) der After, Arist. H. A. 2, 17.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀρχός: ὁ, ἀρχηγός, ἄρχων, ἡγεμών, κυβερνήτης, εἷς δέ τις ἀρχὸς ἀνήρ βουληφόρος ἔστω Ἰλ. Α. 144· μετὰ γεν. ἀρχούς αὖ νηῶν ἐρέω νῆάς τε προπάσας Β. 493, κτλ. Πινδ. ΙΙ. 1. 13, κτλ. ΙΙ. τὸ ὀρθὸν ἔντερον, ἐπὶ ἀρχῷ φλεγμαίνοντι καὶ ὑστέρῃ φλεγμαινούσῃ Ἱππ. Ἀφ. 1255, Ἀριστ. Ἱστ. Ζ. 2. 17, 7 κ. ἄλλ.
