ὁσιότης

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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

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Full diacritics: ὁσιότης Medium diacritics: ὁσιότης Low diacritics: οσιότης Capitals: ΟΣΙΟΤΗΣ
Transliteration A: hosiótēs Transliteration B: hosiotēs Transliteration C: osiotis Beta Code: o(sio/ths

English (LSJ)

ητος, ἡ,

   A disposition to observe divine law, piety, Pl.Prt.329c, Euthphr.14d sq., X.Cyr.6.1.47, SIG654B10 (Delph., ii B. C.), etc.; πρὸς θεῶν ὁ. piety towards them, Plu.Alc.34 ; πρὸς τοὺς θεούς Id.2.359f; also, like Lat. pietas, ἡ πρὸς γονεῖς ὁ. D.S.7.4 ; πρὸς τὴν τεκοῦσαν Id.31.27.