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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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• perfect (adj.):
    1. I. Complete in every part, lacking nothing:
      1. 1. perfectus: the universe is p. in every way, seeing it embraces all things, mundus, quoniam omnia complexus est, p. undique est, Cic. N. D. 2, 14, 38. more fully, perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus, ib. 2, 13, extr.: the complete and p. orator, orator plenus atque p., id. de Or. 1, 13, extr.: nothing p. in every part, nihil ex omni parte p., id. Inv. 2, 1, 3. Join: perfectus completusque, id. Or. 50, 168: perfectus et absolutus [et omnes numeros habens: a Stoical phr.], id. Off. 3, 3, 14.
      2. 2. absŏlūtus: a book p. in every respect, liber omnibus numeris absolutus, Plin. Ep. 9, 38: cf. supr. (usu. found in connexion with some other word).
      3. 3. plēnus: a p. number, numerus p., Cic. Rep. 6, 12: cf. supr. (1): v. complete.
      4. 4. intĕger: v. entire.
    2. II. Characterized by the highest excellence:
      1. 1. perfectus: nothing more p. in its kind than (our) actors, histrionibus nihil in suo genere perfectius, Cic. Or. 31, 109: p. in every kind of speech, in omni genere sermonis p., id. de Or. 1, 9, 35: absolutely p., [summus et] perfectissimus, ib. 1, 3.
      2. 2. absŏlūtus (acc. to Kr. indicating especially, inner excellence, while perfectus points rather to outward completeness and finish): he painted a hero of most p. execution, pinxit heroa absolutissimi operis, Plin. 35, 10, 36 § 74. Phr.: there is no one of them who is not p. in his art, nec quisquam eorum est, cui quicquam in arte sua deesse videatur, Cic. de Or. 3, 7, 26: no one absolutely p., nemo in quo nihil aut desideretur aut reprehendatur, Quint. 10, 2, 9: an absolutely p. artist, artifex adeo excellens ut nihil possit ultra, cf. Cic. Att. 15, 1, B (oratio scripta elegantissime sententiis, verbis; ut nihil possit ultra): a p. scholar, (homo) perfecte planeque eruditus, id. Br. 81, 282; absolute doctus, Suet. Gr. 4.
    3. III. In moral sense, without faults or sin: perfectus: cf. Cic. Off. 1, 15, init., vivitur non cum perfectis hominibus: or expr. by circuml., no one is born p., vitiis nemo sine nascitur, Hor. S. 1, 3, 68: man is believed to have been created p., *homo peccatis expers creatus esse creditur.
    4. IV. Thorough, having all the characteristics of:
      1. 1. germānus (genuine, unmistakable): a p. master of this art, g. hujus artis magister, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 160: I know I am a p. (regular) ass, scio me asinum g. esse, id. Att. 4, 5: the sense is even more adequately expr. by superl.: a p. Stoic, germanissimus Stoicus, id. Ac. 2., 43, 132.
      2. 2. absŏlūtus: p. blackness, abs. nigritia, Plin. 10, 22, 29.
      3. 3. mĕrus (sheer, undiluted, nothing but): to relate p. prodigies, m. monstra nuntiare, Cic. Att. 4, 7.
      4. 4. vērus: v. true, real.
    5. V. In grammar: the p. tense, (tempus) praeteritum perfectum: Quint. 1, 6, 26. (N.B.--Not simply, perfectum; which may refer to the future perfect as well as the past.)