πρόδηλος
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)
ον,
A clear or manifest in front or beforehand, Alc.Oxy. 1789Fr.1 ii4, D.15.30, etc.; ἐμβολὴ π. ἥτις γίνοιτ' ἂν ἁρμόζουσα Hp. Art.30, cf. E.Or.190(lyr.), Hyp.Epit.8; οἱ π. [φόβοι] foreseen, Arist. EN1117a19, cf. Is.3.19, al.; τοῦ μὲν ὄντος π. τοῦ δὲ ἀγνοουμένου Isoc.6.37; εἰ μὲν ἦν π. τὰ μέλλοντα D.18.196; π. εἵλοντο θανάτους Plb.6.54.4; πρόδηλον ἥδη ἦν, ὅτι . . X.HG6.4.9, cf. Isoc.2.42, Pl.Phdr.238b, etc.; evident, καὶ τυφλῷ, φασι, pro/dhlon Polystr.p.8 W.; πρόδηλα γάρ [ἐστι], ὅτι . . μέλλουσι Hdt.9.17, cf. X.Eq.3.3; ἐκ προδήλου from a place in sight, in full view, S.El.1429(lyr.). Adv. -λως Aeschin.1.182, Plu.Oth.9; θανεῖν π. S.Aj.1311. 2 = προδηλωτικός, c. gen., Vett. Val.92.22,al.
