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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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• mortal:
    1. I. Subject to death: mortālis, e: Cic.: Sall.: Hor. Phr.: we are m., we and ours, debemur morti, nos nostraque, Hor. A. P. 63.
    2. II. Causing death:
      1. 1. mortĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum: to receive a m. wound, m. vulnus accipere, Nep. Epam. 9: Cic. Sull. 26, 73 (fig.).
      2. 2. lētālis, e (rare in prose): a m. wound, l. vulnus, Suet. Caes. 82.
      3. 3. mortālis, e (v. rare in this sense): a stab only two inches deep is m., puncta duas uncias adacta m. est, Veg. Mil. 1, 12.
      4. 4. expr. by verb: a cut is rarely m., caesa non frequenter interficit, Veg. l. c.: a wound in the spinal cord is always m., servari non potest cui in spina medulla percussa est, Cels. 5, 26, 2: in the case of wounds not m., ubi aliquis ictus est qui servari potest, ib. § 21. See also deadly (adj.), fatal.
    3. III. Relating to mortal men: mortālis: m. works, m. facta. Hor. A. P. 68: a m. wound (inflicted by a man), m. vulnus, Virg. Aen. 12, 797.