πρὸς κέντρα λακτίζειν → kick against the pricks, kick against the goads, kick against the goad, offer vain and perilous resistance, offer vain and ruinous resistance

[spiros]

πρὸς κέντρα λακτίζειν → kick against the pricks, kick against the goads

Acts 9:5 Rec. (interpolated from Acts 26.14); cf. Pindar (Pythian 2, [173] 95); Aeschylus (Ag. 1624, cf. Prom. 323); Euripides, Bacch. 795; Terent. Phorm. 1, 2, 28; Ammian. 18, 5.