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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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• plĕcto, xi and xŭi, xum, 3, v. a. [root plek-; Gr. πλέκω, πλοκή; Lat. plicin sim-plic-is, im-plic-o, etc.; cf. 3. plaga].
  1. I. To plait, braid, interweave (rare; mostly in the part. perf. and poet.; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: plico, flecto, necto].
    1. A. Lit.: crines plexueris, Vulg. Judic. 16, 13: coronam de spinis, id. Matt. 27, 29: plexa colligata significat ex Graeco, cui nos etiam praepositionem adicimus, cum dicimus perplexa, Fest. p. 230 Müll.: plexae coronae, Lucr. 5, 1399: flores plexi, Cat. 64, 284: colligationes, Vitr. 10, 1.—
    2. B. Trop.: ple-xus, a, um, P. a., involved, intricate, entangled, ambiguous (ante-class.): plexa, non falsa autumare dictio Delphis solet, Pac. ap. Non. 237, 4.—
  2. M. To twist, bend, turn: monstrabat vitulus quo se pacto plecteret, Phaedr. 5, 9, 3 dub. (al. flecteret).