talio
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
Latin > English
talio talionis N F :: retaliation
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
tālĭo: ōnis, f. (
I masc., Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 16) talis; in jurid. lang., a punishment similar and equal to the injury sustained, like for like, retaliation in kind: talionis mentionem fieri in XII. ait Verrius hoc modo: si membrum rupit, ni cum eo pacit, talio esto, neque id, quid significet, indicat, puto, quia notum est. Permittit enim lex parem vindictam, Fest. p. 363 Müll.; Cato ap. Prisc. p. 710 P.; Gell. 20, 1, 33 sq.; 20, 1, 38; Cic. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 21, 11; Plin. 7, 54, 55, § 187; Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 16: corrumpit sine talione caelebs, i. e. with impunity, Mart. 12, 63, 10.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
tālĭō,¹⁴ ōnis, f. (talis), talion, peine du talion : Fest. 363 ; Gell. 20, 1, 33 ; 20, 1, 38 ; Cic. Leg. frg. 4.
Latin > German (Georges)
(1) talio1 (āvī), ātum, āre, spalten, mons taliatus, Gromat. vet. 360, 18.
(2) tālio2, ōnis, f., die gleiche Wiedervergeltung eines empfangenen Schadens am Körper, fast immer im jurist. Sinne, Cato fr., Cic. fr., Sen. rhet. u.a.: sine talione, ungestraft, Mart.: Plur., infinita quaedam talionum reciprocatio, Gell. 20, 1, 18: taliones reciprocae, Gell. 20, 1, 35.
