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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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• open (adj.):
    1. I. Not shut:
      1. 1. ăpertus (most gen. term): to sleep with bedroom doors o., apertis cubiculi foribus cubare, Suet. Aug. 82: Caes.: Cic. Also adapertus (infreq.): Liv. 25, 30 (adapertas portae fores): Ov. Half-, partly open, semiapertus, Liv.; semiadapertus, Ov.
      2. 2. pătens, ntis (wide-open): by the wide o. gates they admit their comrades, p. portis accipiunt socios, Virg. Aen. 2, 266: the o. sea, p. pelagus, id. G. 2, 41. To stand o., păteo, 2: the nostrils stand always o., nares semper p., Cic. N. D. 2, 57, fin.: to be o. for every one to see, omnibus ad visendum p., id. Verr. 4, 3, 5.
      3. 3. pătŭlus (standing always open: apertus, opened for the time being): o. ears (always ready for secrets), p. aures, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 70: o. (spreading) nostrils, p. nares, Virg. G. 1, 376: so, patulae fenestrae, Ov. M. 14, 752, denotes wide, spacious windows (or apertures for admitting light), as opp. to the closed, solid wall. Hence, prōpatulus (o. in front): Cic. Verr. 4, 49, 110 (in aperto ac propatulo loco, i. e. in the o. air, and o. or accessible in front).
      4. 4. hĭans, ntis (wide o., as if gaping): the little fishes swim into the o. shell, pisciculi in concham h. innatant, Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123: to put your fingers opposite a scollop when it is o., digitos adversum pectines hiantes movere, Plin. 11, 37, 52. To stand wide o., hĭo, 1: Hor.: Prop. Phr.: the army received him with o. arms, exercitus libens ac supinis manibus excepit (eum), Suet. Vit. 7 (Kr.); sinu complexuque excepit, cf. Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: so, more generally, libenti laetoque animo excipere, Kr. (e Cic.): any one's house is o. to strangers, patet domus alicujus hospitibus, Cic. Off. 2, 18, 64: more fully, hospitibus domus patet victusque communicatur, Caes. B. G. 6, 23, extr.
    2. II. Free from obstacles, clear, exposed:
      1. 1. ăpertus: a perfectly o. sea, oceanus apertissimus (opp. to conclusus, confined, inland), Caes. B. G. 3, 9: a sky perfectly o., coelum patens atque a., Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2: o. plains, a. campi, Caes. B. G. 3, 26. The neut. is used subs.: in aperto, in the o. plain or space, Liv. 1, 33: Hor. Join: porrecta ac loca aperta, Caes. B. G. 2, 19.
      2. 2. pătens: in the more o. ground, locis patentioribus, Caes. B. G. 7, 28: Sall.: Liv.: cf. supr. (II., 1).
      3. 3. expĕdītus (free from difficulties; practicable): cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 6, iter multo facilius atque expeditius: Cic.
      4. 4. pūrus (clear; not built on): o. ground, p. locus, Varr. L. L. 5, 4, 38: Liv. Join: puro ac patenti loco [dimicare], Liv. 24, 14. Phr. in the o. air, sub divo, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 19, 51: also, sub dio, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 5; and sub Jove, Ov. F. 2, 299.
    3. III. Accessible, in fig. sense: expr. by păteo, 2: rewards, honours which are o. to all, praemia, honores quae (omnibus) patent. Cic. Bal. 9, 24. Or by lĭcet: that both places in the consulate should be o. to plebeians, ut utrumque plebeium consulem fieri liceret, Liv. 8, 12, fin. Phr.: to throw o. the franchise to a large number, civitatem magnae parti (populi) dare, atque communicare, Liv. 23, 5, med.
    4. IV. Not concealed, public; undisguised.
      1. 1. ăpertus: not stealthily, but by o. force, non furtim sed vi aperta, Liv. 25, 24, init.: o. (avowed) freebooting. a. latrocinium, Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1.
      2. 2. mănĭfestus: v. manifest. Phr.: in the o. day (publicity), in luce, Cic. Man. 3, 7: in the o. part of a house (o. court), in propatulo aedium, Nep. Han. 9: to expose anything to o. view, aliquid in promptu ponere, Cic. Off. 1, 35, 126.
    5. V. Candid, out-spoken: simplex, candĭdus v. frank, ingenuous. Phr.: to be perfectly o. with each other, simplicissime inter se loqui, Tac. H. 1, 15.
    6. VI. Not decided or settled: intĕger, līber. he ordered the matter to be left o. till his return, rem integram ad reditum suum jussit esse, Cic. Off. 2, 23, 82: also impers., it is o. (to any one) to act, integrum est, Cic. Att. 15, 23: so, with liberum, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 3. Phr.: it is an o. question, adhuc sub judice lis est, Hor. A. P. 78.