affirm
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
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
assert: P. ἰσχυρίζεσθαι, διισχυρίζεσθαι.
opposed to deny: P. and V. φάναι,P. καταφάναι.
I know not how to affirm or deny this, my child: V. οὐκ οἶδ' ὅπως φῶ τοῦτο καὶ μὴ φῶ, τέκνον (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 643).
affirm in opposition: P. and V. ἀντιλέγειν.
