caelifer

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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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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

caelĭfer: (coel-), ĕra, ĕrum, adj. caelum-fero,
I supporting the heavens, poet. epi. thet of Atlas, Verg. A. 6, 796.—And of Hercules: manus, Sen. Herc. Fur. 528: laudes, extolling to heaven, Mart. Cap. 6, § 637>