περίπολοι

From LSJ

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

Source

English (Woodhouse)

(see also: περίπολος) patrol

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Lexicon Thucydideum

circitores, skirmishers, 4.67.2, 4.67.5. 8.92.2, 8.92.5.