Lepontii
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)
Lēpontĭi: ōrum, m., = Ληπόντιοι,
I a people of Cisalpine Gaul, on the Ticinus; their territory is the modern Val Leventina, Caes. B. G. 4, 10; Plin. 3, 20, 24, § 134; cf. Mann. Ital. 1, p. 181 sq.—Hence, *
II Lēpontĭcus, i, m., a Lepontian, Sil. 4, 235.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Lēpontĭī,¹⁶ ōrum, m., Lépontiens [peuple des Alpes : Cæs. G. 4, 10, 3 ; Leponti Viberi, m. pl., Plin. 3, 134, Lépontiens Vibères, partie des Lépontiens || Lēpontĭcus, a, um, des Lépontiens : Sil. 4, 235.
