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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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• invent:
      1. 1. rĕpĕrio, i, rtum, 4: he i.'d the (use of the) saw, serrae repperit usum, Ov. M. 8, 246: Quint.: foll. by inf., v. to discover.
      2. 2. invĕnio, vēni, ntum, 4: a potter of Sicyon was the first who i.'d ..., Sicyonius figulus primus invenit, foll. by inf., Plin. 35, 12, 43: a way has been i.'d to ..., inventum est, foll. by inf., Plin. 37, 12, 75. (N.B.--There appears to be no ground for the distinction that reperio denotes discovery after search; invenio, accidentally.)
      3. 3. excōgĭto, 1: v. to contrive.
      4. 4. commĭniscor, mentus, 3 (by the exercise of thought): the Phoenicians i.'d the alphabet, literas Phoenices commenti sunt, Mela, 1, 12, init.: Suet.: Plin. See also to discover.