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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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• machine:
      1. 1. māchĭna, māchĭnāmentum, māchĭnātio: v. engine.
      2. 2. orgănum (applicable to any ingeniously constructed instrument: whereas machina, etc., usu. denote powerful engines for applying force): to water gardens by means of pneumatic m.s, hortos pneumaticis org. rigare, Plin. 19, 4, 20: cf. Vitr. 10, 1, 3.
      3. 3. pegma, atis, n. (a stage machine, made so as to be lowered or raised): Sen. Ep. 88, 19 (pegmata per se surgentia): Juv.: Mart.
      4. 4. compāges, is, f.: v. frame-work. Phr.: a new m. involving no great labour was invented, nova haud magni operis excogitata res est, Liv. 38, 7, med.: a simple but ingenious m., *instrumentum haud magnae subtilitatis, artis tamen multae: the man is a mere m., *homo iste quasi compages inanima est, nil proprio impulsu ac sponte facit (Kr. gives machinae instar: but the phr. carries more naturally a different sense).