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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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• PROSTITUTE
1. s. meretrix; scortum; meritorium scortum (one who prostitutes herself for pay; scortum, a lower, more dissolute meretrix; but both these are above prostibula and lupae): prostibulum: mulier omnibus proposita: scortum vulgare: meretrix vulgatissima (common prostitute): mulier quae domum omnium libidinibus patefecit; also, quaestuaria (sc. mulier, Sen., who lives by the wages of prostitution). The son of a common prostitute, ex vulgato corpore genitus: to turn a common prostitute, plane se in vita meretricia collocate: to be or lead the life of a (common) prostitute, corpus vulgo publicare (Plaut.): vita institutoque esse meretricio: meretricio more vivere: se omnibus pervulgare: pudicitiam in propatulo habere (Sall.).
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  • v. PROP., publicare (e.g., corpus, pudicitiam).
  • Figuratively, dehonestare; dedecorare; also by habere se venalem, or habere venalia; e.g., omnia habet venalia, fidem, jusjurandum, veritatem, officium (Cic. Verr., 3, 62, 144).