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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Caesar noun Gall. 1.1 omnia

Contents (4 senses)

I. In local sense
1. infĕrus (situated below)
2. infernus (like preced.)
II. Socially

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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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I. In local sense
1. infĕrus (situated below)
2. infernus (like preced.)
II. Socially

• lower (adj.):

I. In local sense:

1. infĕrus (situated below): esp. in phr., inf. mare, the l. (Tuscan) sea, Plin. 3, 5, 10: Mela: the l. regions, inferi, orum (v. infernal). See also low, adj. (I., 4).
2. infernus (like preced.): the l. regions, inf. partes, poet. in Cic. N. D. 2, 44, 114: Liv. As subs. inferna, orum, the l. parts of the body, Plin.

II. Socially: Phr.: the l. classes, vulgus, i, n. (rarely m.): cf. Sall. Cat. 20, ceteri omnes ... vulgus fuimus (we were regarded as "the lower classes,"): Virg.: also, plebs (esp. in later writers): Liv. 5, 39, fin. (multitudo de plebe, opp. to the nobiles). More contemptuously, plebecula, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 6: Hor.: also popellus, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 65.