κοττὶς

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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 (Liddell-Scott)

κοττὶς: ἢ κοτίς, -ίδος, ἡ, (Δωρ. ἀντὶ κεφαλὴ Πολυδ. Β΄, 29), ἡ παρεγκεφαλίς, Ἱππ. 468. 29, κτλ.· ὡσαύτως, κόττα ἢ κόττη, ὑποκορ. κοττάριον, Ἡσύχ.· πρβλ. κόττος. (Ἐντεῦθεν, πρόκοττα, τρόπος κουρᾶς τῆς κόμης, καθ’ ἣν ἀφίνετο μὲν μακρὰ κατὰ τὸ ἔμπροσθεν τῆς κεφαλῆς, ἐκείρετο δὲ βραχεῖα κατὰ τὸ ὄπισθεν, Πολυδ. Β΄, 29· ἐντεῦθεν καὶ τὸ Λατ. Gotta).