ὅτι χρὴ τοῦ μέλιτος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴ κοίλῃ χειρὶ γεύεσθαι → that honey should be tasted with the fingertip and not by the handful
[Seite 316] poet. = ὀκνέω, Il. 5, 255, c. inf.
épq. c. ὀκνέω.
ipf. ὤκνεον: shrink from doing something, hesitate through some sort of dread, Il. 5.255 and Il. 20.155.
