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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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• pretence:
      1. 1. sĭmŭlātio (act of pretending; feigning, hypocrisy): usu. foll. by gen., as s. virtutis, sapientiae, insaniae: pass. Also absol.: to do away with p. from the whole of life, s. ex omni vita tollere, Cic. Off. 3, 15, init. Join: simulatio et fallacia, id. de Or. 2, 46, 191. (N.B.--The counterpart to simulatio, pretence of what it not, is dissimulatio, concealment of what is.)
      2. 2. spĕcies, ēi (that which is assumed or made pretence of): v. pretext; ostensibly.
      3. 3. by meton. fūcus (lit. colouring matter): esp. in negative phr., without any p., sine fuco, Hor. S. 1, 2, 83; sine fuco et fallaciis, Cic. Att. 1, 1, init. Phr.: under false p.s, dolo malo (legal term): v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. dolus.