A.wasp, “σφῆκες μέσον αἰόλοι” Il.12.167, cf. Hdt.2.92, Ar.Ach.864, etc.; called εἰνόδιοι, from their making their nests in the road, Il.16.259; “σφῆκες ἐκ γῆς” Call.Iamb.1.98; on the different species, v. Arist.HA627b23, cf. 554b22: prov., “μή πως ἐγείρῃς ς. τὸν κοιμώμενον” AP7.405 (Phil.), cf. 408 (Leon.).
σφήξ , σφηκός, Dor.σφάξ , σφα_κός (Theoc.5.29), ὁ (fem. only in An.Par.1.168 and as f.l. in Antisth. ap. Stob.3.13.38):—
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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