τίη
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)
better τί ἢ (A.D.Conj.255.8, 256.3), Att. (?) τιή (v. infr.), strengthd. form of τί;
A why? wherefore? Il.1.365, 6.145,al., Hes.Th. 35, and Att. Comedy: folld. by a Particle, τίη δὲ . .; Il.6.55, 15.244, Od.16.421, al.; τίη δὴ . .; Il.21.436; doubled, τιὴ τί δή; standing alone, why so, tell me? Ar.V.1155, Pax1018, Th.84. (The oxyt. τιή is called Att. by Eust.118.36, cf. 45.4, but was unknown to A.D. and is prob. a fiction; τίη and τιὴ are dub. ll. in Ar.Ach.826; cf. ἦ 1.2, ὁτιή.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 1109] verstärktes τί, warum? eigtl. was nun? Hom. oft, z. B. Il. 1, 365. 6, 55 Od. 15, 326; τίη δέ, Il. 15, 244. 17, 110 Od. 16, 421. 19, 500; τίη δή, Il. 21, 436; Ar. oft u. a. Comic. Die Attiker sollen τιή accentuirt haben. – Ueber die Bildung vgl. ὁτιή, ἐπειή, von ὅτι u. ἐπεί; Buttm. Lexil. II, 191 erklärt es für τί δή.
