προπιτνέω

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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

Source

German (Pape)

[Seite 740] (s. πιτνέω), u. προπίτνω, vor Einem niederfallen; ἐς γᾶν προπιτνοῦντες, Aesch. Pers. 580; bes. flehend, Soph. El. 1372.