villula

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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)

villŭla: ae, f.
dim. villa,
I a little country-house, a small villa, Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3; Hor. S. 1, 5, 45; 2, 3, 10; App. M. 10, p. 240, 9.