Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
mellilla: ae, f.
dim. 2. melinus, a term of endearment,
I little honey, little sweetheart: mea vita, mea mellilla, Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 47 dub.