μηλόκερως

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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

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Greek Monolingual

μηλόκερως και μηλόκερος, ὁ (ΑΜ)
αυτός που έχει κέρατα προβάτου.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < μῆλον (II) «πρόβατο» + -κερος και -κέρως (< κέρας, γεν. αττ. κέρως), πρβλ. αιγό-κερως, μονό-κερως].