στέλεχος
From LSJ
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 (LSJ)
εος, τό, also ὁ Luc.VH1.8, Poll.10.166, cj. in Alciphr. 3.55:—
A crown of the root, whence the stem or trunk springs, δρυὸς ἐν στελέχει Pi.N.10.61, cf. Hdt.8.55, Arist.Ath.60.2; αἴγειρος . . δεδιχασμένη ἑνὸς ἐκ στελέχους Lyr. in Philol.80.334. 2 trunk, log, στελέχη φέρειν Ar.Lys.336 (lyr.); ἐκπρεμνίζειν στελέχη D.43.69; εἰσδυόμενος εἰς τὰ σ., of hollow trunks, Arist.HA559a10; κύων σ. ἔτεκε Hecat.15 J. 3 metaph., blockhead, Lysipp.7.
