τίμησις
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)
[τῑ], εως, ἡ,
A holding valuable, honouring, esteeming, Pl. Lg.696d, 728e. II estimation or valuation of property or merchandise, PRev.Laws 29.12, al. (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.12.1, al. (iii B.C.), Plb.31.28.3: pl., SIG364.66 (Ephesus, iii B.C.); τὰς τ. προσεξεπλήρωσεν, = Lat. census explevit, Mon.Anc.Gr.19.10: Dor. τίμᾱσις, καρπῶ Docum.ant.dell' Africa Italiana 1.88 (Cyrene, iv B.C.). 2 assessment of damages, Pl.Lg.878e; τ. ποιεῖν τινι (opp. a capital charge) Antipho 5.10; ἀπαντᾶν εἰς τὴν τ. Aeschin.3.198, cf. D.53.18: Dor. τίμᾱσις Foed.Delph.Pell.1A 9. 3 rating or assessment for political purposes, Arist.Pol.1308b2 (pl.); ἀπὸ τιμήσεως πολίτευμα D.S.18.18; τοὺς πολίτας συντάξαι . . κατὰ τιμήσεις Plot.6.3.1; of the Roman census, D.H.1.74: pl., Str.3.5.3: pl. of one census, Plu. Caes.55. 4 payment, PSI4.327.10 (iii B.C.).
