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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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• lax:
      1. 1. dissŏlūtus: l. in passing over (an offence), in praetermittendo d., Cic. Verr. 5, 3, extr.: opp. to vehemens (strict, severe), ib. 5, 40, 104.
      2. 2. rĕmissus (oft. an epithet of praise, easy, quiet): esp. in compar. (= more slack than one ought to be), if we choose to be l., si remissiores voluerimus esse, Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 12.
      3. 3. laxus: to exercise laxer discipline over troops, milites laxiore imperio habere, Sall. Jug. 64. (Not in Cic., who however has laxas habenas habere, in anal. sense, Am. 13, 45.)
      4. 4. neglĭgens: v. negligent, careless. See also loose (adj.).