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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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• great:
    1. I. In ordinary senses:
      1. 1. magnus, mājor, maxĭmus: in most senses: (a.) of size: a g. and beautiful house, m. et pulcra domus, Cic.: Caes.: v. large. (b.) of quantity: a g. quantity of fodder, m. copia pabuli, Caes.: a g. sum of money, m. summa pecuniae, Cic. (c.) of weight or import: a g. cause, m. causa, Cic.: g. things the gods look to; little things they neglect, magna dii curant; parva negligunt, Cic.: v. important: esp. in gen. sing. magni, at a g. price; of g. value: to think anything of g. importance, aliquid magni, maximi existimare, Cic. (d.) lofty, eminent: Jupiter most good, most g., Jupiter optimus maximus, Liv.: a g. man, vir m., Cic. (e.) of mental or moral distinction: g. infamy, m. infamia, Cic.: the g.est honours, maximi honores, Cic.: g. and even incredible virtue, m. incredibilisque virtus, Cic.: that is one of the very g.est faults in oratory, id est in oratione vitium vel maximum, Cic. Very g.; permagnus (in various senses): Ter.: Cic.
      2. 2. grandis, e (rather stronger than magnus): (a.) of size: v. large. (b.) of quantity or measure: a very g. crop, grandissima seges, Varr.: a g. weight of silver, g. pondus argenti, Cic.: g. debt, g. aes alienum, Sall. (c.) of distinction of any kind: a g. contest, g. certamen, Hor.: a g. function, g. munus, Hor.: v. grand.
      3. 3. amplus: (a.) of physical dimensions: Cic.: v. spacious. (b.) of distinction, importance: a g. and flourishing state, civitas a. atque florens, Caes. (c.) of various abstract qualities: g.er power, amplior potentia, Plin.: much g.er resentments, irae multo ampliores, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 9: a punishment late but g., poena sera sed a., Prop. 4, 5, 32.
      4. 4. ingens, ntis (unusually g.: chiefly, but not solely, of physical dimensions): g. glory, i. gloria, Liv.: g. deeds, i. facta, Hor.: Virg.: Tac.: v. huge.
      5. 5. impensus (very g.: esp. of price, labour, etc.): at a very g. price, i. pretio, Caes. B. G. 4, 2: Liv. 2, 9 (in Cic. Att. 14, 13, ad fin., the phr. has a totally different sense = pretio non penso): with very g. diligence, i. opera, Gell. 9, 14, med.: very g. goodwill, i. voluntas, Liv.: Tac.
      6. 6. (only in superl.) summus (of abstract qualities): the g.est (highest) honours, s. honores, Cic.: the g.est men and endowed with the g.est abilities, s. homines ac s. ingeniis praediti, Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 6.
      7. 7. (as adj. only in compar.) auctus: Rome became g.er every day, res Romana in dies auctior fieret, Liv. 25, 16, med.: Pl. Join: auctior et amplior, Liv. Phr.: the g.est of evils, ultima in malis, Brut. in Cic.: the g.est faults, ultima vitia, Quint. (v. extreme): so g., how g., tantus, quantus (v. foll. artt.): to be too g. to be believed, fidem excedere (v. to exceed): no very g. disaster, nulla magnopere clades, Liv. 3, 26: Cic.
    2. II. Influential: esp. in phr., the great: princĭpes viri, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 35; nobiles, nobilitas, optimates: v. nobility. Phr.: a g. friend, potens amicus, Hor. Od. 2, 18, 12; magnus amicus, Juv. 1, 33.
    3. III. With child: praegnans: v. pregnant.