decharmido

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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)

dēcharmĭdo: āre, 1, v. a. de-Charmides,
I to un-Charmidize, i. e. to destroy one's identity as Charmides, also (with allusion to etym. of Charmides, "Son of joy," from χάρμα>) to end his happiness: rursum te decharmida, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 135.