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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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• ingenious:
      1. 1. sollers (sōlers), rtis: provident and i. Nature, provida s.que Natura, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128: nothing more i. (than grafting), nihil sollertius, Cic. Sen. 15, extr.
      2. 2. subtīlis, e (strictly, fine, precise; hence, nice, clever): a most i. invention, subtilissimum inventum, Plin. 31, 3, 23. Join: sollers subtilisque, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121.
      3. 3. artĭfĭciōsus: i. and divine handiwork, a. divinumque opus, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138. (N.B.--Not ingeniosus, which is highly gifted, in gen. sense.) Phr.: an i. but simple contrivance was resorted to, nova haud magni operis excogitata res est, Liv. 38, 7: a very i. piece of mechanism, opus singulari sollertia ac subtilitate perfectum, cf. Cic. Verr. 4, 33, 72: a wonderfully i. military engineer, mirabilis inventor ac machinator bellicorum tormentorum, Liv. 24, 34, init.