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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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• backwards:
    1. I. With the back foremost: retro: to row a vessel b., retro inhibere navem, Liv.: v. to back. Phr.. he dragged the oxen by their tails b. into the cave, aversos boves caudis in speluncam traxit, Liv.
    2. II. Towards the back, or in a contrary direction:
      1. 1. retro: I follow the footsteps b., vestigia r. sequor, Virg.: to turn one's face b., ora r. flectere, Ov.
      2. 2. retrorsum: to sail b., r. vela dare, Hor.: to return b., r. redire, Plin.
      3. 3. rursus: to fall b. from the top, a summo r. cadere, Pl.: Ter. Phr.: to sail b. and forwards, ultro citroque navigare, Cic.: to send ambassadors b. and forwards, ultro citroque legatos mittere, Caes.
    3. III. Towards past times: retro: b. up to Romulus, r. usque ad Romulum, Cic.: Hor.
    4. IV. In reverse order:
      1. 1. retro: from the lowest note to the highest and b. there are many gradations, ab ima voce ad summam ac r. multi sunt gradus, Quint.
      2. 2. retrorsum: as you would say, men and women, day and night, rather than b., ut viros ac feminas, diem ac noctem dicas potius quam r., Quint. Phr: we have gone b., i. e. are in a worse condition, deteriore statu sumus, Cic.