plastes

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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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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

plastes: ae, m., = πλάστης>,
I a moulder, potter, modeller, statuary (post-Aug.; syn. fictor), Vell. 1, 17, 4: laudatissimi, Plin. 35, 12, 45, § 154; Vitr. 1, 1, 13; Tert. Idol. 3; Vulg. Isa. 41, 25.—
II A creator, maker (eccl. Lat.): Israel, Vulg. Isa. 45, 11: terrae, id. ib. 45, 18.