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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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• lawful:
      1. 1. lēgĭtĭmus (agreeable to existing laws): a l. adversary (opp. to a freebooter, etc.), justus et l. hostis, Cic. Off. 3, 29, fin.: l. hours (fixed by law), l. horae, id. Verr. 2, 1, 9, 25: v. legal.
      2. 2. fas, indecl. (agreeable to divine law or conscience) what is l. for man to wish, quod homini fas est optare, Cic. Am. 3, 11: quod fas est, and quod per leges licet, are mentioned together, Cic. Mil. 16, 43: not to consider a thing l., fas non putare (foll. by inf.), Caes. B. G. 5, 12 also with second sup., si fas est dictu, Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 38.
      3. 3. lĭcĭtus (rare): Tac. Phr.: it is l., lĭcet, 2; per legem, leges, being added when the ref. is to an existing law or laws (v. supr. 2): the same things are not l. everywhere, non ubique idem licet, cf. Quint. 5, 10, 40.