epos

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 (Lewis & Short)

ĕpos: (occurring only in the nom. and acc.), n., = ἔπος,
I a heroic poem, an epic; nom., Hor. S. 1, 10, 43; acc., Mart. 12, 95; Aus. Prof. 5, 10.