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
P. and V. φάρυγξ, ἡ, (rarely ὁ), Ar. and V. λάρυγξ, (Euripides, Cyclops), λαιμός, ὁ (sing. Euripides, Ion, 1037 and Hecuba 565, but generally pl.).