φιλόκαλος
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
English (LSJ)
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A loving the beautiful (both of personal and moral beauty), loving beauty and goodness, Pl.Phdr.248d, Criti.111e, Com.Adesp. Oxy.1239.18, etc.; τὸ φ. Plu.2.61d, 1026d. 2 fond of effect and elegance, X.Cyr.1.3.3; φ. περὶ ὅπλα ib.2.1.22; τὰ περὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα φ. Isoc.1.26, cf. 10.57; of the peacock, Arist.HA488b24. Adv., -λως ἔχειν περί τι J.AJ12.2.1, cf. Gal.14.218, etc.: Comp. -καλώτερον κοπρίσαι more elaborately, Gp.5.26.10. II fond of honour, seeking honour, φιλοκαλώτεροι ἐν τοῖς κινδύνοις X.Smp.4.15, cf. Arist.EN 1125b12, 1179b9. III κατὰ τὸ φ. πειραθέντα κατανοῆσαι to see by working out the calculation, Iamb. in Nic.p.124 P.
