dumetum
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)
dūmētum: or dummetum (another form: DUMECTA antiqui quasi DUMICETA appellabant, quae nos
I dumeta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 67, 10 Müll.), i, n. id., thorn-bushes, thorn-hedge, thicket.
I Lit., Cic. Tusc. 5, 23; Verg. G. 1, 15; Hor. C. 3, 4, 63; 3, 29, 23 al.—
II Trop.: cur orationem tantas in angustias et Stoicorum dumeta compellimus? Cic. Ac. 2, 35: quod cum efficere voltis (i. e. deum significare) in dumeta conrepitis, id. N. D. 1, 24 fin.>
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
dūmētum,¹³ ī, n. (dumus), ronceraie, buissons : Cic. Tusc. 5, 64 || arbrisseaux : Virg. G. 1, 15 ; Hor. O. 3, 4, 63 || [fig.] dumeta Stoicorum Cic. Ac. 2, 112, les épines du stoïcisme = subtilités, difficultés, cf. Nat. 1, 68.
