provocation
From LSJ
μηδὲν κοτυλίζειν, ἀλλὰ καταπάττειν χύδην → not to sell by the cupful, but to dole out indiscriminately | not to sell by retail but wholesale
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. παροξυσμός, ὁ.
we begin the war under provocation: P. ἀδικούμενοι τὸν πόλεμον ἐγείρομεν (Thuc. 1, 121).
nor do we attack without extreme provocation: P. οὐδ' ἐπιστρατεύομεν μὴ καὶ διαφερόντως τι ἀδικούμενοι (Thuc. 1, 38).
