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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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• perfection ; perfectness
    1. I. Completeness:
      1. 1. absŏlūtio: virtue is defined as the perfection of reason, virtus rationis abs. definitur, Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 39. Join: absolutio perfectioque, id. de Or. 1, 28, fin.
      2. 2. integrĭtas (outward or bodily entireness; whereas absolutio indicates inner ideal completeness): perfectness of body, int. corporis, id. Fin. 5, 14, extr. (Or expr. by verb: v. perfect, II., fin.)
    2. II. Highest excellence:
      1. 1. perfectio: more adequately, optimi perfectio atque absolutio, Cic. Br. 36, 137: cf. supr. (I., 1).
      2. 2. absŏlūtio: v. supr.
      3. 3. expr. by summus, extrēmus, optĭmus: p. in all things to be aimed at rises by many degrees, extremum omnium appetendorum multis gradibus adscendit [ut ad summum perveniat], Cic. Fin. 5, 14, fin.
    3. III. Last degree; esp. ironical: that is the p. of stupidity, *hoc est germanissimae stultitiae: v. perfect (IV.).