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

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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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  • s. marinorum aestuum recessus; aesptus decessus. At the time of the ebb-tide, minuente aestu (Caes.). Ebb and flow, marinorum aestuum accessus ac recessus; aestus maritimi accedentes et recedentes.
  • FIG., To be at a low ebb (by various expressions, according to the thing or state to which the phrase is applied) ad inopiam redigi; in moerore, in dolore, in moestitia esse; in malis esse or versari: My purse is at a low ebb, imparatus sum a pecunia; a pecunia laboro; in summa sum difficultate numaria.
2. v. recedere, decrescere: this fountain ebbs and flows three times a day, hic fons ter in die crescit decrescitque. The sea ebbs and flows, aestus maris accedunt et reciprocant: the waters are beginning to ebb, or the ebb-tide is beginning, aestus minuit (Caes.); undae recedunt; aestus maris residunt, or se resorbent: the sea ebbs and flows twice in every twenty-four hours, bis affluunt bisque remeant aestus maris vicenis quaternisque semper horis: when the tide has flowed for six hours, it ebbs for the same number, cum sex horis aestus creverunt, totidem decreverunt rursus iidem (Varr.).