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Ψεύδει γὰρ ἡ ‘πίνοια τὴν γνώμην → A second thought proves one’s first thought false

Sophocles, Antigone, 389

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

per-pŭsillus: a, um, adj.,
I very small, very little: pusillus testis processit ... Non accusabis: perpusillum rogabo, in a double sense (adj. or adv.), I will ask very little, or, the very little man, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 245.