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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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• FLOURISH
1.
  • To be in a prosperous state, florere: florescere: vigere (to thrive): ☞ inclarescere is post-classical. At the time when the state was flourishing, florentissimis rebus.
  • To be celebrated, gloria florere: esse in laude: gloria circumfluere: omnium sermone celebrari: in magno nomine et gloria esse: magna celebritate famae esse (stronger terms).
  • In singing, numeros et modos et frequentamenta incinere (Gell., 1, 11): flectere vocem (Ov., Am., 2, 4, 25).
  • To use florid language, flosculos congerere: floridiore dicendi genere uti: orationem ornare (or exornare) atque illuminare, etc.: orationem dicendi luminibus ornare.
  • To play in circular movements, etc., rotari (e.g., ignis supra caput; ☞ quotation from Pope, in Johnson).
2.
  • INTRANS., vibrare (bastam, tela, etc.). To flourish a sword, ensem rotare (Verg.).
  • To ornament, *floribus ornare, distinguere (to ornament with flowers): acu pingere.
3. (a trumpet), inflare buccinam: classicum canere (if as a signal of alarm).
4. s. ornatus: ornamentum (ornament, inasmuch as it contributes to the beauty of anything; beautifying ornament): cultus (anything that is added to the external part for the sake of improving it): Ornamentum ineptum (a badly-managed or ill-conceived, tasteless ornament; of things in general): lenocinium (an awkward and tasteless or grotesque ornament, in speech and song, etc.). A flourish in singing, flexiones or flexus vocis (Vid: Ernesti, Lex. techn. Latin rhet., p. 173): to add or introduce a flourish in singing, numeros et modos et frequentamenta incinere (Gell., 1, 11): a flourish in speech, or in speaking, flosculi: dicendi, or orationis, or verborum lumina (any prominent or ornamental part); quasi verborum sententiarumque insignia: calamistra (affected flourishes or ornaments, Cic., Tac.; litterally, curling-irons).