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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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• oppressive:
      1. 1. grăvis, praegrăvis (burdensome in any way): if these (requirements) seemed o. or distressing, haec si g. aut acerba videantur, Caes. B. G. 7, 14: o. bondage, praegrave servitium, Plin.: v. grievous.
      2. 2. mŏlestus (less strong than Eng.): v. troublesome, irksome.
      3. 3. ăcerbus (bitter and distressing): most o. taxes, acerbissima tributa, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, init.: cf. supr. (1), where acerbus is used as a heightened expression after gravis.
      4. 4. ĭnīquus (unfair, pressing too heavily on): v. unjust. Phr.: most o. taxation, intolerabilia tributa, Cic. Fam. 3, 7, init.: the o. (lit. leaden) S. wind, plumbeus Auster, Hor. S. 2, 6, 18 (gravis = unhealthy): to become more and more o., ingravescere, Cic. Br. 1, 10, init.