Aeculanum
From LSJ
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
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Aecŭlānum: or Aeclānum, i, n.,
I a city of the Hirpini in Samnium, now Le Grotte, Cic. Att. 7, 3, 1; id. ib. 16, 2, 4; Inscr. Orell. 5019.—Hence: Aecŭlāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Æc., Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 105; Inscr. Grut. 444, 5; and: Aecŭlā-nenses or Aeclānenses, ium, the same as Aecŭlāni, Inscr. Orell. 838, 862; 3108 al.
