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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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• popular:
    1. I. Of the people: pŏpŭlāris, e: the breath of p. favour, p. aura, Hor. Od. 3, 2, 20: Cic.: or expr. by gen. of populus: the p. feeling, populi sensus, Cic. Att. 2, 19, 2.
    2. II. Relating to the people as distinguished from the aristocracy: pŏpŭlāris: a p. form of government, reipublicae genus p., Cic. Rep. 2, 23. Hence, the p. party, populares, opp. optimates: Cic. Sext. 45, init.
    3. III. In general favour
      1. 1. pŏpŭlāris (somewhat rare in this sense): a man p. for his very gravity and sternness, homo ipsa tristitia et severitate p., Cic. Br. 25, 97 (in Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10, to be p., is expr. by populares haberi, to be looked upon as men of the people, the friends of the people: and this is the best use of the word): a very useful present but not equally p. (a public library), utilissimum munus sed non perinde p., Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 12. Join: populare gratumque audientibus id. Pan. 77.
      2. 2. usu. better expr. by circuml.: their object was to be p., *ea quae faciebant multitudini jucunda esse volebant, Cic. in Nizol.; or perh. more exactly, *ea faciebant quae multitudini jucunda esse videbantur: so, in vulgus gratus (acceptus), Cic. Att. 2, 22, med. (not, vulgo gratus, in which case vulgo would be taken as adv.). Phr.: my books are said to be p., libelli quos emisimus dicuntur in manibus esse, Plin. Ep. 1, 2, 6: Cic.: to become less p., studium populi amittere, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 2.
    4. IV. Adapted for general use; or actually so used: Phr.: a p. style, genus dictionis ad vulgarem popularemque sensum accommodatum, Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 108: to adopt a p. style, populariter loqui, id. Fin. 2, 6, 17: a p. treatise, liber populariter scriptus; liber ἐξωτερικός, id. 5, 5, 12: later, exotericus is used as a Latin word: Gell. 20, 5, med.: the p. name (of a plant), populare nomen, Plin. 13, 4, 9 § 48 (see also common).