melica

ἀεὶ δ' ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κρατοῦσιν → always try to please your masters, always be obsequious to the masters

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

mēlĭca: ae, f., perh.
I a kind of vessel (ante-class.), Varr. ap. Non. 545, 4; 12 and 23.