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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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• monstrous:
    1. I. Misshapen and unnatural: monstrōsus (monstruōsus), portentōsus, prōdĭgiōsus: v. monster (I.)
    2. II. Revolting to reason: portentōsus (rare in this sense): what can be more m. than this (statement), quo quid fieri portentosius potest? Sen. Ep. 87, 19. Phr.: for it is m. to assert, nam illud vehementer rectae rationi repugnat, cf. Cic. Fin. 5, 26, 77: what so m. can be said or conceived, quid tam perversum [praeposterumve] dici, aut excogitari potest, id. Rab. Post. 13, 37.