consonus
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
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
con-sŏnus: a, um,
I adj., sounding together in harmony, harmonious (rare, mostly poet.).
I Lit.: clangor, Ov. M. 13, 610: fila lyrae, id. Am. 1, 8, 60: vox, Sil. 17, 448.—
B Subst.: consŏna, ae, f., = consonans, a consonant, Ter. Maur. p. 2395 P. sq.; cf.: consona elementa, id. p. 2385 ib.—
II Trop., accordant, fit, suitable: fila telae, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 42: credo Platonem vix putasse satis consonum fore, si, etc., * Cic. Att. 4, 16, 3; App. M. 2, p. 114. —With dat.: consona regno juvenem docere, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 69.—* Adv.: con-sŏnē, harmoniously: clamitare, App. M. 1, p. 106, 34.
