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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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• obscurity:
    1. I. Lit.: obscūrĭtas, tĕnebrae: v. darkness.
    2. II. Lack of clearness: obscūrĭtas: Cic.: Quint.: to involve a thing in o., obs. et tenebras alicui rei afferre, Cic. de Or. 3, 13, 50. Phr.: to be wrapped in o., in incertum et ambiguum implicari, Tac. A. 1, 11: to speak without o., *nullis ambagibus loqui: cf. Ov. M. 10, 19.
    3. III. Meanness of origin or rank: hŭmĭlĭtas, ignōbĭlĭtas, sordes (stronger than Eng.): v. meanness (I.), humbleness (I.). Phr.: to raise from o. or consign to it, celebrare, obscurare, Sall. Cat. 8: cf. obscura promere, insignia attenuare, Hor. Od. 1, 24, fin.: to pass one's life in o., vitam silentio transire, Sall. Cat. init. (scarcely to be imitated): vitam per obscurum transmittere, Sen. Ep. 19, 2: to raise a family from o., familiam (abjectam et obscuram) e tenebris in lucem evocare, Cic. Deiot. 11, 30; familiam illustrare, (to shed lustre on it), Suet. Gal. 3, med.