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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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• curvus (-vŏs), a, um, adj. [root kar-, whence κορώνη; cf.: circus, varus], crooked, curved, bent (opp. rectus; mostly poet.).
  1. I. Prop.: aratrum, Lucr. 5, 933; 6, 1253; Verg. G. 1, 170: rastri, Cat. 64, 39: culter, Sen. Hippol. 53: falces, Verg. G. 1, 508: calamus, Cat. 63, 22: arbor, Ov. M. 5, 536: arcus, id. ib. 9, 114: dens, id. Am. 3, 10, 14: ungues, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4; Hor. Epod. 5, 93: lyra, id. C. 1, 10, 6; 3, 28, 11: crinale, Ov. M. 5, 53: (equi) alvus, Verg. A. 2, 51: carinae, id. G. 1, 360: cavernae, id. A. 3, 674: rates, Prop. 3 (4), 7, 29. litora, Cat. 64, 74; Verg. A. 3, 223; Hor. C. 4, 5, 14; id. Epod. 10, 21; Ov. M. 11, 352; cf. spatium, Sall. H. 4, 20 Dietsch: flumen, winding, crooked, Verg. G. 2, 12; Ov. M. 3, 342: aquae, id. F. 3, 520: aequor, rising on high, boisterous, id. M. 11, 505 al.—Of persons: ita te adgerundā curvom aquā faciam, ut, etc., Plaut. Cas. 1, 1, 36: arator, bent, stooping, Verg. E. 3, 42; and of one bent by age: anus, Prop. 2 (3), 18, 20. membra, Ov. M. 3, 276: senecta, id. A. A. 2, 670: caelator, Juv. 9, 145: vel gibberosi vel curvi, Dig. 21, 1, 3.—
  2. II. Trop., crooked, wrong, perverse: mores, Pers. 3, 52.—Subst.: curvum, i, n., that which is crooked or wrong (opp. rectum): scilicet ut possem curvo dignoscere rectum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 44: rectum discernis, ubi inter Curva subit, Pers. 4, 12: invenimus qui curva corrigeret, set every thing right, Plin. Ep. 5, 8 (21), 6: hic nobis curva corriget? Sen. Apoc. 8 fin.