inscitus
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)
in-scītus: a, um, adj.
I Ignorant, inexperienced, unskilful, silly, simple, stupid; freq. coupled with stultus (rare in Cic.; a favorite word of Plaut.), Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 51: inscita atque stulta mulier, id. ib. 2, 3, 85; id. Mil. 3, 1, 141.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: mirum atque inscitum somniavi somnium, Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 5.—Comp.: quid est inscitius, Cic. N. D. 2, 13. 36; id. Div. 2, 62.—Sup.: inscitissimus, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 14.— *
II Pass., unknown: nescio quid aliud indictum inscitumque dicit, Gell. 1, 22, 11.—Adv.: inscītē, unskilfully, clumsily, awkwardly (class.): comparari, Cic. Fin. 3, 7, 25: non inscite nugatur, id. Div. 2, 13, 30: facta navis, Liv. 36, 43, 6.—Sup.: inscitissime petit, Hyg. ap. Gell. 10, 16, 5.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
īnscītus,¹⁵ a, um, ignorant, gauche, maladroit : quid inscitius est quam et prop. inf. Cic. Nat. 2, 36, quelle plus grande absurdité que ; [avec inf.] Cic. Div. 2, 127
