formucales

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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

Source

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

formucales: forcipes dictae, quod forma capiant, id est ferventia, Paul. ex Fest. p. 91 Müll.
I N. cr. (acc. to Scalig. to be read ‡ formucapes).