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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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• frost:
      1. 1. gĕlu, ūs, n. (also used concr. for ice: q. v.): to be frozen up with the keen f., acuto g. consistere, Hor. Od. 1, 9, 4: the forms gelus and gelum also occur: ne gelus noceat, Cato, R. R. 40, extr.; venenum enim gelum radicibus tenellis, Varr. R. R. 1, 45; but not in the best writers.
      2. 2. gĕlātio (a frost: rare): a severe f., magna g., Plin. 17, 27, 37 § 233.
      3. 3. gĕlĭcĭdium (= preced.: a term freq. in the writers on husbandry): to be assailed by f.s, gelicidiis [pruinisve] infestari, Col. 2, 8, med.: (a bough) exposed to f., ad gelicidium retectus, Varr. R. R. 1, 55, init.: Cato.
      4. 4. pruīna: v. hoar-frost. Sometimes frigus (frigora) may be precise enough, esp. poet.: cf. Ov. Fast. 1, 149, etc.: v. cold.