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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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• indifferent:
    1. I. Not caring:
      1. 1. sēcūrus (heedless: not in this sense in Cic.): supremely i. about what may alarm Tiridates, quid T. terreat, unice s., Hor. Od. 1, 26, 6: i. to his sister's love, s. amorum germanae, Virg. Aen. 1, 346: Sil.
      2. 2. lentus (phlegmatic): Hor. S. 1, 9, 64: Cic.: v. cool (III.).
      3. 3. dissŏlūtus (lax, heedless): of so i. a temper as to endure this, tam d. animo, ut hoc ferre posset, cf. Cic. R. Am. 11, 32.
      4. 4. indiffĕrens, ntis (rare): i. about diet, circa victum i., Suet. Caes. 53.
      5. 5. incūriōsus (unconcerned), rĕmissus (slack, wanting in vigour): Join: remissus ac languidus animus, Caes. B. C. 1, 21: v. remiss. Phr.: to be i.: (1.) nil mŏror, 1 (not to care for or value: with acc.): all those things I am i. to, ista omnia nil moror, Pl. Aul. 2, 1, 49: Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 16. (2.) lentē s. indiffĕrenter fero, 3, irr. (to take a thing coolly or i.): comp. preced. art. (3.) neglĭgo, exi, ectum, 3 (to disregard): to be i. to threats, minas n., Cic. Quint. 30, 92; to money, pecuniam n., Sen. V. B. 27, 6: foll. by inf. (poet.), to be i. to the perpetration of a crime, n. fraudem committere, Hor. Od. 1, 29, 30. (4.) obdūresco, dūrui, 3 (to become hardened and so i.): through despair the mind becomes i. to grief, desperatione rerum ob. animus ad dolorem, Cic. Fam. 2, 16, init.: also of the deadening of affection, ib. 5, 15. (5.) expr. by intĕrest, rēfert: I am quite i. on that point, id mea nihil refert, interest: L. G. § 283, Obs. (6.) expr. by cūro, cūrae est, magni facio, aestimo, with a negative: v. to care for.
    2. II. Of neutral character; neither good nor bad:
      1. 1. indiffĕrens, ntis (in phil. sense): used by Cic. = Gr. [Greek: adiaphoros], Fin. 3, 16, 53.
      2. 2. mĕdiocris, e (in popular sense, middling): cf. Hor. A. P. 372: v. middling.
      3. 3. mĕdius: i. pursuits, artes m. (expl. as quae neque laudari per se nec vituperari possunt), Quint. 2, 20, 1: an i. character, m. ingenium, Tac. H. 1, 49.
      4. 4. expr. by circuml., nec bonus nec malus, cf. Cic. Fin. l. c.
      5. 5. sometimes neuter may serve, when good and bad are mentioned: e. g. quid bonum sit, quid malum, quid neutrum, Cic. Div. 2, 4, init. (R. and A.).