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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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• obstinate:
      1. 1. pertĭnax: o. discussions (in bad sense), p. in disputando concertationes, Cic. Fin. 1, 8, 27: an o. struggle (well fought on both sides), p. certamen, Liv. 2, 40, fin.: a long and o. illness, longa et p. valetudo, Plin. Ep. 1, 22, 1. (The good sense is mostly confined to later writers.)
      2. 2. pervĭcax (for syn. v. obstinacy, 1): v. stubborn.
      3. 3. obstĭnātus (in good or bad sense): a more o. (settled) determination, voluntas obstinatior. Cic. Att. 1, 11, med.: with o. determination, obs. animo, Liv. 3, 47.
      4. 4. offirmātus (infreq.): Cic. Att. l. c. (in conjunct with obstinatus). Phr.: do not be so o., ne tam offirma te! Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 8: an o. battle, atrox proelium (attended with much slaughter), Liv. 21, 29. (N.B.--Not refractarius, which is extr. rare [contumaces ac refractarios, Sen. Ep. 72, init.], and denotes opposition, intractableness, rather than obstinacy: praefractus = over-severe, stern.)