gadfly

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

P. and V. μύωψ, ὁ (Plato), V. οἶστρος, ὁ.

driven by the gadfly, adj.: Ar. and V. οἰστροδίνητος, V. οἰστρήσας (aor. part.), οἰστροπλήξ.