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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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• pole:
    1. I. A long staff:
      1. 1. asser, ĕris, m.: esp. of the poles used to carry a litter: Suet. Cal. 58: Juv. Dimin. assercŭlus (a short p.): Cato: Col.
      2. 2. contus (esp. a punting-p.): Virg. Aen. 6, 302: in gen. sense, to carry heads stuck on p.s, praefixa contis capita gestare, Tac. H. 1, 44.
      3. 3. pertĭca (any longish stick): used for beating asses, Pl. As. 3, 2, 43; for knocking down fruit from trees, Plin. 15, 3, 3; for measuring, Prop.
      4. 4. longūrius (a long p.): scythes fastened to long p.s, falces affixae longuriis, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: Varr.
    2. II. Of the earth: pŏlus: Plin. 2, 15, 13 (vertices duo quos appellaverunt polos): the icy (northern) p., glacialis p., Ov. M. 2, 173. In same sense also, axis: Lucan 8, 175. (In non-scientific lang., vertex may be used: cf. Virg. G. 1, 242, hic nobis vertex semper sublimis, etc.: also Plin. l. c.) The celestial p., cardo coeli, Varr. R. R. 1. 2, ad init.: called also, cardo mundi, Plin. 4, 12, 26 § 89.