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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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• fortune-teller:
      1. 1. sortĭlĕgus: used contemptuously by Cic. Div. 1, 58, init.: Lucan.
      2. 2. hăruspex, ĭcis (a soothsayer: q. v.): travelling f.s, h. vicani, Vet. poet. in Cic. Div. l. c.
      3. 3. hăriŏlus, f. -a: Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 55: Pl.
      4. 4. conjector, f. -trix: Cic. Div. l. c.: N. D. l. c.
      5. 5. dīvīnus (a prophet): I stand by (and watch) the f.s, assisto divinis, Hor. S. 1, 6, 114: but in Cic. Div. l. c., the word is used in contrast with the appellations of vulgar f.s.
      6. 6. sāga (a wise woman): Cic.: Hor.
      7. 7. ănus, ūs (lit. an old woman: hence to be used only when the context explains): cf. Hor. S. 1, 9, 30: fatum quod puero cecinit divinâ motâ anus urnâ. Phr.: to practise the trade of a f., quaestus causa hariolari, Cic. Div. 1, 58, init.