The corpus record — Latin

lacrimula

lacrimula · f

a little tear, crocodile-tear

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Where it lives

Pro Cn. Plancio 3 · 2.58/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k

What it meant

lăcrĭmŭla — 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.

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