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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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• prone:
    1. I. Leaning forward, with the face to the ground: prōnus: he rolls p. on his head, p. volvitur in caput, Virg. Aen. 1, 115: Sall. Cat. 1. See also headlong.
    2. II. Inclined to:
      1. 1. prōnus (foll. by ad or in and acc.: in Cic., denoting natural tending towards rather than propensity properly so called): too p. to complaisance, in obsequium plus aequo p., Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 10: Suet.: cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 26, fr., anxitudo pr. ad luctum.
      2. 2. prōpensus, prōclīvis: v. inclined. (All the above words, like the Eng., are naturally most frequently used of evil tendency.)