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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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• gloom:
    1. I. Lit.: tĕnebrae, cālīgo: v. darkness.
    2. II. Fig.: of calamity, sadness, etc.:
      1. 1. tĕnebrae, arum: in what g. is this life spent, qualibus in t. degitur hoc aevi! Lucr.: if exile have cast a g. over you, si quid tenebrarum offudit exsilium, Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, 82.
      2. 2. cālīgo, ĭnis, f. (thick darkness): see now the g. of those times, vide nunc c. temporum illorum, Cic. Pl. 40, 96. Join: caligo et tenebrae, Cic. in Sen. 3, 5.
      3. 3. tristĭtia: from the height of joy, suddenly a g. fell upon all, ex summa laetitia, repente omnes t. invasit, Sall. Cat. 31: a kind of g. contracts the face of the earth, quasi t. quaedam contrahit terram, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 102: v. sadness.