retractus
From LSJ
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)
rē̆tractus: a, um, Part. and P. a. of retraho.
rē̆tractus: ūs, m. retraho,
I a drawing back: machinae bellicae, Tert. adv. Gnost. 1.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) rĕtractus,¹⁶ a, um,
1 part. de retraho
2 adjt, retiré, éloigné, enfoncé, à l’écart : Liv. 26, 42 ; 36, 21 ; retractior a mari murus Liv. 34, 9, mur plus retiré de la mer, cf. Plin. Min. Ep. 2, 17, 6.
(2) rĕtractŭs, abl. ū, m., action de tirer en arrière : Tert. Scorp. 1 ; Isid. Nat. 40, 1.
