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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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• inflate:
    1. I. Lit.: to swell out by blowing:
      1. 1. inflo, 1: the canvas is i.d by the wind, inflatur carbasus vento, Virg. Aen. 3, 357: Phaedr.: Cic.
      2. 2. sufflo, 1 (by introducing wind under): to i. the skin, cutem s., Plin. 8, 38, 57: Pl.
    2. II. Fig.: of elation, pride:
      1. 1. inflo, 1: to i. any one's mind with false hope, alicui animos spe falsa inf., Cic. in Pis. 36, 89: Liv. (N.B.--Not sufflo in this sense.)
      2. 2. to be i.d, tŭmeo, ui, 2: to be i.d with empty pride, inani superbia t., Phaedr. 1, 3, 4: Juv. (but both tumeo and tumesco are oftener used of ferment of feeling).
      3. 3. turgeo, si, 2 (esp. of diction; to be i.d, bombastic): Hor. A. P. 27. Join: [oratio quae] turget et inflata est, Auct. Her. 4, 10, 15. In same sense, turgesco, 3: Quint. 12, 10, 73. See also ELATED (TO BE).