μελίχρως

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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

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Transliteration A: melíchrōs Transliteration B: melichrōs Transliteration C: melichros Beta Code: meli/xrws

English (LSJ)

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   A honey-coloured, i. e. with olive complexion, freq. in Pap., as PPetr.3p.8, al. (iii B. C.), Sammelb.7169.17 (ii B. C.), cf. AP12.170 (Diosc.): also acc. pl. μελίχροας honey-coloured, κηρούς Q.S.3.224; of complexion, Ptol.Tetr.144: dat. sg. μελίχροϊ, νέκταρι Tryph. 113.