praeterpropter
From LSJ
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)
praeterpropter: prep. with acc. praeter-propter,
I thereabout, more or less (ante-class.), Enn., Cato, and Varr. ap. Gell. 19, 10, 10 (see the whole passage respecting the phrase, and Hand, Turs. 4, 544 sq.).
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
præterpropter,¹⁶ adv., approximativement, tant bien que mal : Enn. Scen. 241 ; Cato, Varro ; cf. Gell. 19, 10, 2 ; 10.
