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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)

crĕpĭda: ae, f., = κρηπίς>,
I the sole which served the Greeks, and the Romans who adopted Grecian habits, as a shoe, a sandal (pure Lat. solea; cf. Gell. 13, 21, 5 sq.), Cic. Rab. Post. 10, 27; Liv. 29, 19, 12; Suet. Tib. 13; id. Calig. 52; Hor. S. 1, 3, 127; Pers. 1, 127 al.—Prov.: ne sutor supra crepidam (judicaret), let the cobbler stick to his last, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 85; Val. Max. 8, 12, ext. 3.