ἐγκαθίζω
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)
Ion. ἐγκατίζω,
A seat in or upon, εἰς θρόνον Pl.R.553c; ἐ. στρατιὰν ἐν τοῖς τόποις station a force in a place, Plb.16.37.4: aor. 1 Med., ναὸν ἐγκαθείσατο (vulg. ἐγκαθείσατο, cf. ἐγκαθισάμενοι τὰ ὅπλα v.l. in J.BJ5.1.2) founded a temple there, E. Hipp.31. 2 administer a sitz-bath to one, Sor.1.64, Herod.Med. ap.Orib.6.20.18, etc.:—Pass., Hp.Mul.1.35; also, to be used for such, Dsc.5.13,30. 3 cause to subside upon, τοῖς κοιλώμασι τὴν ὑπερκειμένην γῆν Lyd.Ost.53. II intr., sit in or upon, [θρόνῳ] Pi. P.4.153:—Med., ἐγκατίζεσθαι εἰς θρόνον take one's seat on... Hdt.5.26.
