ἐλαφηβολιών
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)
ῶνος, ὁ (sc. μήν), the ninth month of the Attic year, in which
A the Elaphebolia were held, Foed. ap. Th.4.118, etc.; also at Iasos, CIG2675; at Apollonia in Chalcidice, Hegesand.40.
German (Pape)
[Seite 792] ῶνος, ὁ, der neunte Monat im attischen Jahre (die zweite Hälfte des März u. die erste des April), in welchem das Fest der ἐλαφηβόλια gefeiert wurde, Thuc. 4, 118 u. A.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἐλαφηβολιών: -ῶνος, ὁ, ὁ ἔνατος μὴν τοῦ Ἀττ. ἔτους, καθ’ ὃν ἑωρτάζοντο τὰ Ἐλαφηβόλια (ἐν Ἤλιδι καλούμενος μὴν Ἐλάφιος, Παυσ. 5. 13, 11), ἀντιστοιχῶν πρὸς τὸ τελευταῖον ἥμισυ τοῦ Μαρτίου καὶ τὸ πρῶτον δεκαπενθήμερον τοῦ Ἀπριλίου, Θουκ. 4. 118· προηγεῖται τοῦ Μουνυχιῶνος, Αἰσχίν. 40. 20.
