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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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• poetry:
    1. I. The art or accomplishment:
      1. 1. pŏētĭcē, ēs; and -a, ae (Gr. ποιητική): p. the reformer of life, emendatrix vitae poetica, Cic. Tusc. 4, 32, 69: to dabble in p. (without sinister meaning), poeticen attingere, Nep. Att. 18.
      2. 2. pŏēsis, is, f.: Quint. 12, 11. 26.
    2. II. That which is composed:
      1. 1. pŏēsis: the entire p. of Anacreon is erotic, Anacreontis tota p. est amatoria, Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, extr.: Hor. A. P. 361.
      2. 2. pŏēma, ătis, n. (usu. a single composition): to write p. (be a poet), poema facere, Cic. Ac. 1, 3, 9.
      3. 3. carmen, ĭnis, n.: epic p., c. epicum, Quint. 10, 1, 62: history is a sort of prose p., historia quodammodo solutum c., id. 10, 1, 31: Cic.
      4. 4. versūs, uum: v. verse. Phr.: that is the language of p., *hoc est poetice loqui; genus hoc loquendi est a poetis petitum (v. poetical): those persons take away all the p. of life, *isti omne quod Musas sapit e vita tollunt; vitae quasi lumen decusque adimunt.