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
prae-cŭpĭdus: a, um, adj.,
I very desirous or fond of any thing: pretiosae supellectilis praecupidus, Suet. Aug. 70.
