musca
οὐκ ἐπιλογιζόμενος ὅτι ἅμα μὲν ὀδύρῃ τὴν ἀναισθησίαν, ἅμα δὲ ἀλγεῖς ἐπὶ σήψεσι καὶ στερήσει τῶν ἡδέων, ὥσπερ εἰς ἕτερον ζῆν ἀποθανούμενος, ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ εἰς παντελῆ μεταβαλῶν ἀναισθησίαν καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν τῇ πρὸ τῆς γενέσεως → you do not consider that you are at one and the same time lamenting your want of sensation, and pained at the idea of your rotting away, and of being deprived of what is pleasant, as if you are to die and live in another state, and not to pass into insensibility complete, and the same as that before you were born
Latin > English
musca muscae N F :: fly (insect); gadfly, bothersome person
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
musca: ae, f. Sanscr. makshikà, a fly; Gr. μυῖα, of which musca, μυἱσκα, may be a dim. form; cf. Germ. Mücke; Engl. midge, musquito,
I a fly, Varr. R. R. 3, 16: puer, abige muscas, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 247: muscas fugare, Mart. 3, 82, 12: muscas captare ac stilo praeacuto configere (solebat Domitianus), Suet. Dom. 3.—Transf., of troublesome persons.—So of inquisitive, prying people, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 26; of obtrusive, unbidden guests, id. Poen. 3, 3, 76.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) musca,¹³ æ, f. (μυΐσκη, dim. de μυῖα), mouche [insecte] : Cic. de Or. 2, 247 ; Varro R. 3, 16 || [fig.] homme curieux : Pl. Merc. 361 || importun : Pl. Pœn. 690.
Latin > German (Georges)
musca, ae, f. (v. μυΐσκα, das Demin. v. μυια), die Fliege, I) eig., Sen. u.a.: muscarum et culicum multitudo, Amm.: muscas captare, Suet.: fugare muscas, Mart.: calvi momordit musca nudatum caput, Phaedr. – Sprichw., non posse videtur muscam excitare, wir »kein Wässerchen zu trüben«, Sen. apoc. 10, 2. – II) übtr., v. Neugierigen, Plaut. merc. 361: v. zudringlichen, ungebetenen Gästen, Plaut. Poen. 690: v. zudringlichen Menschen übh., puer, abige muscas, Cic. de or. 2, 247.
