illusio
From LSJ
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
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
illūsĭo: (inl-), ōnis, f. illudo,
I a mocking, jeering; irony, a figure of speech, = derisio, insultatio, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 202; also ap. Quint. 9, 1, 28; cf. id. 8, 6, 54.—
II An illusion, deceit (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Psa. 37, 7; Isa. 66, 4.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
illūsiō (inl-), ōnis, f. (illudo), ironie : [fig. de rhét.] : Cic. de Or. 3, 202
