extort
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
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
exact: P. and V. πράσσειν, ἐκπράσσειν, εἰσπράσσεσθαι, P. εἰσπράσσειν, Ar. and P. πράσσεσθαι, ἀναπράσσειν.
take away: P. and V. ἐξαιρεῖσθαι, βίᾳ ἐξαιρεῖσθαι.
Met., evoke (tears, etc.): P. and V. ἐκκαλεῖσθαι, V. ἐξάγειν (Euripides, Supplices 770).
perchance this reproach may have slipped out, extorted from him by anger: V. ἀλλ' ἦλθε μὲν δὴ τοῦτο τοὔνειδος τάχ' ἂν ὀργῇ βιασθέν]] (Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 523).
