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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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• harsh:
    1. I. To the ear
      1. 1. raucus (hoarse): the h. sound of brass, aeris r. canor, Virg. G. 4, 71 h. cymbals, r. cymbala, Prop. Hor. v. hoarse.
      2. 2. asper, ĕra, erum (rough): a voice soft or h., vox lenis, aspera, Quint. 11, 3, 15 the h. letter (R), a. litera, Ov. F. 5, 481.
      3. 3. fractus (broken, crashing: chiefly poet.): the h. sound of trumpets, f. sonitus tubarum, Virg. G. 4, 72. a h. murmur, f. murmur, Tac. G. 3.
      4. 4. dūrus (as rhet. term, unpleasing to the ear): h. in its sounds (of the Latin lang.), dura sonis, Quint. 12, 10, 27: h. syllables, d. syllabae, ib. § 30.
      5. 5. horrĭdus (also rhet.: rugged, uncouth): Quint. l. c. § 28. Phr. a h. crashing noise, aridus fragor, Virg. G. 1, 357.
    2. II. Of flavours: acrid, severe: austērus: wine of a h. flavour, vinum a., Cels. 2, 24: a h. flavour, sapor a., Plin. 25, 5, 20; gustus a., Col. 12, 12. See also sour, pungent.
    3. III. Of temper, character:
      1. 1. dūrus (unfeeling): to behave in a h. and inhuman manner, se d. agrestemque praebere, Cic. Or. 43, 148. h. commands. d. imperia, Virg. G. 2, 369: v. stern.
      2. 2. sĕvērus: v. severe.
      3. 3. immītis, e (merciless, inexorable): the h. tyrant (Pluto), im. tyrannus, Virg. G. 4, 492: Liv. Join: asper et immitis, Epigr. in Suet. Tib. 59.
      4. 4. asper: a h. and stern doctrine (of the Stoics), doctrina a. et dura, Cic. Mur. 29, 60.
      5. 5. inclēmens, ntis (opp. to mild): a h. word, in. verbum, Liv. 9, 34, fin. See also fierce, cruel.
    4. IV. Of language, style:
      1. 1. dūrus (hard; lacking grace and elegance): both expressions are exceedingly h., utrumque omnino d., Cic. N. D. 1, 34, 95: h. in the composition of verse, d. componere versus, Hor. S 1, 4, 8. Somewhat h., duriusculus, Plin. Ep. 1, 16, 5. Join: [oratione] durus, incultus, horridus, Cic. Brut. 31, init.
      2. 2. horrĭdus (uncouth, rugged): the h. Saturnian metre, h. ille numerus Saturnius, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 157: words that are a little h., verba horridiora, Cic. Br. 17, 68. Quint. Join: aspera, tristis, horrida [oratio], Cic. Or. 5, 20. Dimin., horridulus (somewhat h.), Cic.
      3. 3. asper (stronger than preced., positively harsh and grating): usu. with some other word: abrupt, h. composition, compositio praefracta et a., Sen. Ep. 114, 15: so, compositio dura atque a., Quint. 9, 4, 142.