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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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• pīnus, ūs and i (dat. pinu, Prop. 3, 19, 19; abl. sing. only pinu; gen. and abl. plur. pinorum and pinis), f., = πίτυς.
  1. I. Lit., a pine, pine-tree; a fir, fir-tree: Pinus silvestris, Linn.; Plin. 16, 20, 33, § 79; 16, 25, 40, § 95: ex altā pinu, Verg. G. 2, 389: pinos loquentes, id. E. 8, 22: evertunt actas ad sidera pinus, id. A. 11, 136: Idaeae sacro de vertice pinus, id. ib. 10, 230: gummi in cerasis, resina pinis, Plin. 37, 3, 11, § 42.— The pine was sacred to Cybele, Ov. M. 10, 103; Macr. S. 6, 9; Phaedr. 3, 17, 4; to Diana, Hor. C. 3, 22, 1; Prop. 2, 15, 17 (3, 12, 19); Pan was represented with a pinewreath, Ov. M. 14, 638; Sil. 13, 331; so, too, Faunus, Ov. H. 5, 137. The victors at the Isthmian games were also crowned with a pine-wreath, Plin. 15, 10, 9, § 36.—Acc. to the fable, Pitys, i. e. pinus, was beloved by Pan; hence, pinus amica Arcadio deo, Prop. 1, 18, 29 (20).—
    1. B. The stone-pine, which bears an edible fruit, Plin. 16, 10, 16, § 38.—
  2. II. Transf., any thing made of pine-wood or pine-trees.
      1. 1. A ship: quos Mincius infestā ducebat in aequora pinu, Verg. A. 10, 206; Hor. Epod. 16, 57: quamvis Pontica pinus Silvae filia nobilis, id. C. 1, 14, 11: orbata praeside pinus, Ov. M. 14, 88.—
      2. 2. A pine torch: atque manum pinu flagranti fervidus implet, Verg. A. 9, 72.—
      3. 3. A lance, spear, Stat. Th. 8, 539.—
      4. 4. An oar, Luc. 3, 531.—
      5. 5. A wreath of pineleaves, Ov. M. 14, 638; id. F. 1, 412; Sil. 13, 331.—
      6. 6. A pine forest: Gallinaria pinus, Juv. 3, 307.