ἀντέρεισις

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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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Transliteration A: antéreisis Transliteration B: antereisis Transliteration C: antereisis Beta Code: a)nte/reisis

English (LSJ)

εως, ἡ,

   A thrusting against, resistance, Hp.Art. 50; esp. the fulcrum or resistance used in reducing a dislocation, ib. 2; of joints, Arist.IA705a14; λάμπειν ἀντερείσει τοῦ αἰθέρος by its resistance, Plu.Lys.12; forward pressure, Ael.Tact.18.8; repulsion, Plu.2.396a, cf. Ph.1.153, Plot.4.3.26(pl.).    II Rhet., buttressing, mutual support, of clauses in a period, Demetr.Eloc.12.