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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. I. In colours:
      1. 1. tăbŭla picta: Ter. Eun. 3, 4, 36: to hang good p.s in a good light, t. bene pictas in bono lumine collocare, Cic. Br. 75, 261. Also without picta; when the context defines: so in the prov., manum de tabula! take your hand from the p.! have done! Cic. Fam. 7, 25. Dimin., tăbella (a small p. or one of a less elevated subject, e. g. "genre" picture): Cic. Fam. 7, 23: Plin.
      2. 2. pictūra (strictly the art of painting; hence, meton. a picture): Cic. Verr. 4. init. (p. in tabula, in textili).
    2. II. Fig., of a verbal delineation: Phr.: he draws a vivid p. of the battle, *speciem formamque pugnae ita expingit, ut propemodum oculis cernere videamur, cf. Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114; *pugnae quasi imaginem quandam pictam ob oculos ponit: what a charming p. is this! *quam venusta haec est imago!