πείθεται πᾶς ἥδιον ἢ βιάζεται (Dio Cassius, Historiae Romanae 8.36.3) → it's always more pleasant to be persuaded than to be forced
subraucus, a, um, vox subrauca Cic. Br. 141, voix un peu creuse [de basse taille], caverneuse.
sub-raucus, a, um, etwas heiser, vox, Cic. Brut. 141. – neutr. adv., subraucum et lugubre strepens, Amm. 31, 16, 6.