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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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1. perversus (quite wrong and misguided)
2. prāvus (lit. crooked, mis-shapen

• perverse:

1. perversus (quite wrong and misguided): an unreasonable and p. man, (homo) praeposterus atque p., Cic. Cic. 26, 71: the p. (misguided) ingenuity of grammarians, p. grammaticorum subtilitas, Plin. 35, 3, 4. Join: pravus et perversus, Cic.
2. prāvus (lit. crooked, mis-shapen: hence, absurd, unreasonable): p. counsels, p. consilia, Cic. Am. 22, fin.: esp. with perversus, v. supr. (1): also, Cic. Rab. Post. 13, 37. See also wilful, obstinate.