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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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• plebeian (subs.):
    1. I. A member of the plebeian order at Rome:
      1. 1. plēbēius (homo, etc.): to elect no p. (as consul), neminem plebeium creare, Liv. 6, 40, fin.: Cic.: the pl. can be used without a subs.: cf. L. G. § 339, Obs. 2.
      2. 2. collect. the p.s, the plebeian order: plebs or plēbes, is (rarely -ĕi), f.: the p.s seceded from the patricians, plebes a patribus secessit, Sall. Cat. 33: so Cic. Br. 14, 54 (where some edd. read plebs, which became the more usual form): Liv.
    2. II. In wider sense, a low-bred person: homo sordĭdus (v. mean, adj. II.); infimo loco natus, Cic. Fl. 11, init. See also ignoble; obscure; lower (II.). (Not homo plebeius, in this sense.)