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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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• fool (subs.):
    1. I. A foolish person:
      1. 1. stultus (gen. term): I believe that I am a f., I don't think I am an idiot, egomet me s. esse existimo, fatuum esse non opinor, Poet. in Isid. Or. 10, s. v.: Cic.: v. foolish.
      2. 2. fătuus (a strong word): v. idiot.
      3. 3. homo ĭneptus, dēmens: v. foolish. Phr.: to play the f. (act foolishly), nugas agere, Pl. Men. prol. 54: to play the f. in season, desipere in loco, Hor. Od. 4, 12, extr.: cease to play the f., desinas ineptire, Cat. 8, 1: to make a (pretty) f. of any one, aliquem lepide ludificari, Pl. Mil. 3, 3, 53; ludibrio habere, Pl. Cas. 3, 5, 26: Ter.; (pulchre, lepide) os alicui sublinere, Pl. Merc. 2, 4, 17: you are no f., haud stulte sapis, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 82.
    2. II. A professional jester: sannio: Cic.: v. jester.