ichneumon
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)
ichneumon: ŏnis, m., = ἰχνεύμων.
I An animal which tracks the crocodile and destroys its eggs; the Egyptian rat or ichneumon, Plin. 8, 24, 35, § 88; 8, 25, 37, § 90 sq.; Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101; Mart. 7, 87, 5; Nemes. Cyneg. 54.—
II An insect, the ichneumon-fly, Sphex sabulosus, Linn.; Plin. 10, 74, 95, § 294; 11, 21, 24, § 72.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
ichneumōn, ŏnis, m. (ἰχνεύμων), ichneumon, rat d’Égypte : Cic. Nat. 1, 100 || espèce de guêpe : Plin. 10, 204.
Latin > German (Georges)
ichneumōn, onis, m. (ἰχνεύμων), I) die Pharaonsmaus, die den Krokodileiern nachstellt, Plin. 8, 88. Solin. 32, 25. Cic. de nat. deor. 1, 101. Vitr. 8, 2, 7. Mart. 7, 87, 5. Nemes. cyn. 54: enhydrus ichneumonis genus, Amm. 22, 15, 19. – II) der Afterraupentöter, eine Art Insekten (Sphex sabulosus, L.), Plin. 10, 204 u. 11, 72.
