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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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• presence:
    1. I. Being in view:
      1. 1. praesentia: to avoid any one's p., alicujus aspectum p.que vitare, Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17: Vell.
      2. 2. expr. by praesens: in my, thy, ... p., me, te ... praesente, Cic. de Or. 1, 24, 112 (in presentia = for the present): to declare any one deserving of death, in his very p., aliquem praesentem [et audientem] vita privandum esse dicere, id. Cat. 4, 6, 13. Phr.: in the p. of, cōram (both as adv., and more freq., prep. with abl.): when I came into your p., ut veni coram, Hor. S. 1, 6, 56: in the p. of a numerous attendance of delegates, coram frequentissimo legationum conventu, Nep. Epam. 6: Cic.: strengthened by praesens: Cic. Agr. 3, init. (coram potius, me praesente, dixissent).
    2. II. In phr. presence of mind: (?) praesentia animi (good courage, resolution): Cic. Mil. 23, 62: Plin. 8, 25, 38 (but the sense is not identical: v. ll. cc.): in same sense, praesens animus: to show p. of mind, praesenti animo uti et consilio (which corresponds very closely to the Eng.), Cic. Off. 1, 23, 80: also sometimes perh., animo adesse (which denotes either attention or courage: v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. assum, I., 4): to lose one's p. of mind, perturbari ... et de gradu dejici (ut dicitur), Cic. Off. l. c.