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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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• lawless: i. e. restrained by no law:
      1. 1. lĭcens, ntis (rather rare): applied by Cic. to the structure of the dithyramb, de Or. 3, 48, 185 (in which sense, lege solutus, Hor. Od. 4, 2, 12): Val. Max. Join: audax et licens, Gell. 15, 9.
      2. 2. audax (usu. of that daring which defies law): to withstand the l., audacibus resistere, Cic. Inv. 1, 3, 4: more fully, ad facinus audax, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 9.
      3. 3. nĕfārius (stronger than the Eng.): v. wicked.
      4. 4. quod contra leges fit (opposed to definite enactments): v. illegal. (N.B.--The phr. legibus solutus denotes exemption from the operation of particular laws. cf. Merivale, ch. xxxi. ad fin.)