dodrans
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
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
dōdrans: antis, m.,
I nine twelfths or three fourths of any thing (v. as, I.).
I In gen.: alicujus aedificii reliquum dodrantem emere, Cic. Att. 1, 14 fin.; cf.: solvere dodrantem, Mart. 8, 9: heres ex dodrante, Nep. Att. 5, 2; Suet. Caes. 83: jugeri, Col. 5, 1, 11; Liv. 8, 11: operae, Col. 2, 4, 8: dodrantes semuncias horarum, Plin. 2, 14, 11, § 58: pondo dodrans, Scrib. Comp. 45 et saep.—
II Esp.
(a) As a measure of length, nine inches, Plin. 36, 9, 14, § 71; Suet. Aug. 79; Front. Aquaed. 65.—
(b) As a measure of time, three quarters of an hour, Plin. 18, 25, 58, § 219; 2, 14, 11, § 58.
