contractor

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 > Greek (Woodhouse)

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P. ἐργολαβός, ὁ.

contractor: ōris, m. contraho, I. B. 2.,
I one who makes a contract, a contractor, Cod. Just. 5, 5, 8; cf. Cod. Th. 10, 6, 3.