delegatio
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
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
dēlēgātĭo: ōnis, f. delego, no. II.,
I an assignment, substitution, delegation of one person by another.
I Prop.: a mancipe, Cic. Att. 12, 3, 2; of one thing for another: delegatione perfecta solutio, Sen. Ben. 6, 5, 2; cf. context.—
II Trop.: necesse est ipse laborem impendas: delegationem res ista non recipit, Sen. Ep. 27, 4.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
dēlēgātĭō,¹⁵ ōnis, f. (delego),
1 délégation, substitution d’une personne à une autre [dont elle reçoit les pouvoirs] : Cic. Att. 12, 3, 2 ; Sen. Ben. 6, 5, 2
