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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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• pestilence:
      1. 1. pestĭlentia: the city was visited with a p., p. [gravis] incidit in urbem, Liv. 27, 23; pestilentiâ laboratum est, id. 1, 31, med.: pestilentia populum invasit, id. 4, 21: cf. pestilentia conflictari, Caes. B. C. 2, 22.
      2. 2. pestis, is, f. (any great evil of a destructive kind: cf. Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101, ibes ... avertunt pestem ab Aegypto, referring to poisonous serpents): (prayers) to remove the p. from the people, p. a populo avertere, Liv. 4, 25 (where, however, the more definite word pestilentia has just been used; pestis being = scourge): Col. 7, 5, init. (= murrain).
      3. 3. lues, is, f. (poet.): Virg. Aen. 3, 139: Ov. Phr.: a year marked by p. in town and country, annus pestilens urbi agrisque, Liv. 3, 6, init.: the p. began to pass off, defuncta morbis corpora salubriora esse incipere, id. 3, 8, init.