mystery
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
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
dark saying: P. and V. αἴνιγμα, τό, αἰνιγμός, ὁ (Plato).
secret: Ar. and P. ἀπόρρητον, τό, or pl., V. ἄρρητα, τά; see secret.
mysteries, mystic rites: P. and V. μυστήρια, τά, ὄργια, τά, τέλη, τά, τελεταί, αἱ, P. τὰ μυστικά, V. μυστικὸν τέλος (Aesch., Fragment).
of the mysteries, adj.: Ar. and V. μυστικός.
initiate in mysteries, verb transitive: Ar. and P. τελεῖν, μυεῖν.
initiation in mysteries, subs.: P. and V. τελετή, ἡ.
one initiated in mysteries: Ar. and P. μύστης, ὁ.
