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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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• knave:
      1. 1. scĕlestus: freq. as term of reproach in Pl., Ter.: knave sceleste! Pl. Ps. 1, 3, 141: so, scelestissime, id. Am. 2, 1, 11: homo may be added: the audacious k.! O scelestum atque audacem hominem! Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 41.
      2. 2. vĕtĕrātor (a sly old rogue): Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 6: Cic.
      3. 3. homo nēquam (less colloq. than the Eng.): v. worthless. (By a bold fig. Cic. has nequitia = homines nequam, Verr. 5, 15, 38, provinciam ad summam stultitiam nequitiamque venisse, the greatest fools and knaves: Nägels. Stil. p. 46.)
      4. 4. furcĭfer, ĕri (hang-dog: freq. term of abuse): Join: impudice, sceleste, ... furcifer, Pl. Ps. 1, 3, 142. Phr.: an arch-k., caput scelerum, Pl. Curc. 2, 1, 19 (also scelus is freq. used as term of abuse. Ter. Andr. 3, 5, 1, etc.): see also rascal, wretch. The knave in cards, (?) puerulus: Germ. knabe = boy.