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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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• invention:
    1. I. The act of inventing: expr. by verb: by the i. of the saw, serra reperta s. inventa: v. to invent.
    2. II. That which is invented: inventum (more freq. = device): Ov. M. 1, 521. (Or expr. by verb.)
    3. III. The mental power: inventio: cf. Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 61, vis quae investigat occulta, quae inventio atque excogitatio dicitur: also of literary i., Auct. Her. 1, 2, 3: Cic. (title of work).
    4. IV. Fabrication: commentum, mera fabula: v. fabrication, fiction.