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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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• ascent:
    1. I. The act of ascending:
      1. 1. Expr. by verb: as, during the a. to the summit, dum in summum ascenditur: v. to ascend.
      2. 2. ascensus, ūs: they began to hinder the foremost from the a., primos prohibere ascensu coeperunt, Caes. Fig.: an a. to a degree of higher honour, ad honoris amplioris gradum a., Cic.
    2. II. The way or means of ascending: ascensus: a difficult and steep a., a. difficilis atque arduus, Cic.
    3. III. Inclination or slope upwards: q. v. Phr.: the road has an a. of not less than a foot in 200, via libramenta habet fastigata non minus in centenos pedes semipede (cf. Vitr. 8, 6, 1).