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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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• insane:
      1. 1. insānus Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 52 (where the corresponding verb is furere, to be i.): ib. Tusc. 3, 5, 11: Hor. S. 2, 3, pass.: freq. in fig. sense: i. desire, ins. cupiditas, cupido, etc.: v. mad.
      2. 2. fŭriōsus (stronger than insanus, which includes all degrees of insanity: this was the legal term, cf. Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11, itaque non est scriptum, SI INSANUS, SED SI FURIOSUS ESCIT): the sleeping, the drunken, the i., dormientes, vinolenti., furiosi (opp to sani), Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 88: Hor. S. 1, 3, 83. Also used fig., Cic.: Liv. Join: vecors, furiosus, mente captus, Cic. in Pis. 20, 47.
      3. 3. mente captus: Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 53: cf. supr. (2).
      4. 4. vēcors, rdis: like the insane, more vecordium, Just. 2, 7: but more freq. in fig. sense, Cic.: Liv.: cf. supr. (2). To be i., fŭro, 3 (v. supr. 1); insānio, 4: Cic. Att. 7, 10: Hor. (insanire ac furere, Cic. Verr. 4, 18, 39): to pretend to be i., dementiam simulare, Just. 2, 7. See also foolish, infatuated.