ἔτης
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)
ὁ, Elean ϝέτας (v. infr.), in Hom. always in pl. ἔται, οἱ:—
A clansmen, i.e. kinsmen and dependents of a great house, ἀμύνων σοῖσιν ἔτῃσι Il.6.262; δαινύντα γάμον πολλοῖσι ἔτῃσιν Od.4.3; παῖδάς τε κασιγνήτους τε ἔτας τε Il.6.239, cf. Od.15.273; ἔται καὶ ἀνεψιοί Il.9.464; ἔτας καὶ ἑταίρους 7.295; γείτονες ἠδὲ ἔται Od.4.16. II later, citizen, ἔταις ἀμαχανίαν ἀλέξων τεοῖσιν Pi.Pae.6.10, cf. Epic. in Arch.Pap.7.4; τὼς ἔτας καττὰ πάτρια δικάζεσθαι Foed.Lac. in Th.5.79: in sg., a private citizen, opp. those who hold office, πρός σε . . ὡς ἔτην λέγω A.Supp.247; οὔτε δῆμος οὔτ' ἔτης ἀνήρ Id.Fr.377; ἀρχῷ, φωτὶ δ' οὐκ ἔτῃ πρέπων E.Fr.1014; αἴτε ϝέτας αἴτε τελεστά SIG9.8 (Olympia, vi B.C.), cf. 141.12 (Corc. nigra, iv B.C.), Mus.Belg.16.70 (Athens, ii A. D.), IG5(2).20 (Tegea). (On the breathing, see Hdn.Gr.2.55.)
