discerniculum

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θαρσεῖν χρὴ φίλε Βάττε: τάχ' αὔριον ἔσσετ' ἄμεινον → you need to be brave, dear Battus; perhaps tomorrow will be better | Take heart, dear Battos! Tomorrow will be better.

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

discernĭcŭlum: i, n. id.. *
I The bodkin in a woman's head-dress, which parted the hair, a hair-bodkin, Lucil. ap. Non. 35, 31; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 129.—*
II Trop., a difference: coloris, Gell. 17, 15, 4; Ambros. Apol. Dav. Alt. 4, 26.