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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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• lento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to make flexible, to bend (poet. and in postclass. prose).
  1. I. Lit.: arcus lentare et fundere glandes, i. e. to draw a bow, Stat. Achill. 1, 436; so, arcus, id. Th. 1, 703: Gortynia cornua, id. ib. 3, 587.—
    1. B. Transf., to bend, i. e. ply the oar: Trinacriā lentandus remus in undā, Verg. A. 3, 384: remos, Sen. Agm. 437.—
  2. II. Trop.
    1. A. Of time, to draw out, prolong, lengthen, protract: lentare fervida bella, Sil. 8, 11: fata Romana lentata, Treb. Claud. 6.—
    2. B. To moderate: lentatus vapor, Sid. Carm. 22, 191.