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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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• pliable ; pliant
    1. I. Easily bent: flexĭbĭlis., flexĭlis, lentus, etc.: v. flexible.
    2. II. Of the mind or character, easily influenced:
      1. 1. flexĭbĭlis: Cic. Att. 10, 11. (Or expr. by flecto: pliable as wax in the way of vice, cereus in vitium flecti, Hor. A. P. 163: tender and unformed minds are pliable, facile flectuntur animi teneri et rudes, cf. Cic. Leg. 1, 17, fin.)
      2. 2. mollis, e (soft, yielding): a p. and easily governed age, aetas m. et apta regi, Ov. A. A. 1, 10: so, molles anni, id. H. 1, 111. (Cf. Cic. Att. 1., 17, mollis animus et ad accipiendam et ad deponendam amicitiam.)
      3. 3. mōbĭlis, e: Virg. G. 3., 165 (m. aetas): but mobilis usu. refers rather to quick changefulness than pliancy.