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

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• flesh (subs.):
    1. I. In ordinary sense:
      1. 1. căro, carnis, f. (strictly, f. as meat; whereas viscus denotes living flesh: but the distinction is not always adhered to): to live on milk and f., lacte et carne vivere, Caes.: raw f., cruda c., Sen.: f. of game, c. ferina, or ferina alone as subs., Sall.: Virg. (v. game): f. of oxen, carnes bubulae, Plin. (in designating diff. kinds of flesh, such adjj. as agnina, vitulina, canina, are used as subss., like ferina, supr.). Sometimes used contemptuously: never shall this f. drive me to fear, nunquam me c. ista compellet ad metum, Sen. Ep. 65, 22: also used of the fleshy part of fruits (v. pulp). Dimin. căruncŭla: to put trust in a little bit of calves'-f. (the exta), carunculae vitulinae credere, Cic. Div. 2, 24, 52.
      2. 2. corpus, ŏris, n.: the bones placed under the f., ossa subjecta corpori, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 139: I have lost both strength and f., vires et c. amisi, Cic. Fam. 7, 26: on what fare have you made so much f., quo cibo tantum fecisti corporis? Phaedr. 3, 7, 5: diet adapted for making f., cibi potionesque corpori faciendo aptae, Cels. Hence of, or belonging to f., corpŏreus: the shoulder of f. (of Pelops), humerus c., Ov. M. 6, 406: food consisting of f., c. dapes, Ov.
      3. 3. viscus, eris, n. (comp. supr. 1: see also intestines): f. (he said) was produced from small particles of f., de minutis visceribus viscus gigni, Lucr. 1, 837: from the putrid f. spring bees, de putri v. nascuntur apes, Ov. M. 15, 365: darts sticking fast in the f. (under the skin), haerentia viscere tela, Ov. Met. 6, 290: when the tunic had fastened itself upon his f., cum tunica visceribus inhaesisset, Cic. Tusc. 2, 8, 20.
      4. 4. pulpa (f. without bone: rare): to devour the f. of a suspicious leg of pork, p. dubio de petasone vorare, Mart. 3, 37, 6: bones stripped of the f., ossa viduata pulpis, Apul. Fig.: this polluted f. of ours, haec scelerata p., Pers. 2, 63: Auson.
    2. II. As theol. term: the carnal nature: căro, carnis, f.: Vulg. Rom. viii. 1. Or perhaps, libidines corporis (v. lust). Phr.: pleasure of the f., corporis voluptas, Cic.: v. bodily.