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
shear: P. and V. κείρειν, τέμνειν.
dock, shorten: P. and V. συντέμνειν, κολούειν.
clip ped short (of hair): V. ξυρήκης, διατετιλμένος (Sophocles, Fragment).
