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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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• limit (v.):
      1. 1. fīnio, 4: Cic.: v. preced. art.; and to bound.
      2. 2. circumscrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (usu. within narrow bounds): to l. or define one's prerogative by boundaries, terminis quibusdam c. ac definire jus suum, Cic. de Or. 1, 16, 70: Plin.
      3. 3. termĭno, 1: to l. glory by (certain) boundaries, finibus gloriam t., Cic. Sen. 23, 82. Phr.: to l. (the orator) to a narrow range, in angustum gyrum compellere, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 70: to l. oneself in anything, certos sibi fines terminosque constituere, [extra quos egredi non possit], Cic. Quint. 10, 35.