lacrimula
From LSJ
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.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
lăcrĭmŭla: (-mŏla), ae, f.
dim. id.,
I a little tear, crocodile-tear (rare but class.): haec verba una me hercule falsa lacrimola, Quam oculos terendo misere vix vi expresserit, Restinguet, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 22: non modo lacrimulam, sed multas lacrimas videre potuisti, Cic. Planc. 31, 76: frustrantur falsis gaudia lacrimulis, Cat. 66, 16.
