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
Full diacritics: νυκτῐβόας | Medium diacritics: νυκτιβόας | Low diacritics: νυκτιβόας | Capitals: ΝΥΚΤΙΒΟΑΣ |
Transliteration A: nyktibóas | Transliteration B: nyktiboas | Transliteration C: nyktivoas | Beta Code: nuktibo/as |
ου, ὁ, = στρίγλος, Hsch. (νυκτοβόα cod.).
νυκτιβόας, ὁ (Α)
(κατά τον Ησύχ.) «στρίγλος
καλεῑται δὲ καὶ νυκτοβόα, οἱ δὲ νυκτοκόρακα».
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < νυκτι- (βλ. ετυμολ. λ. νύχτα) + βόας (< βοῶ), πρβλ. τηλε-βόας].