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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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• quivering (adj.):
  1. A. Expr. by particips.
      1. 1. trĕmens: q. sails, trementia vela, Lucr. 4, 75: the q. holm-oaks, trementes ilices, Hor. Epod. 10, 8: the q. pieces (of a newly-slaughtered beast): cf. frusta verubus trementia figunt, Virg. Aen. 1, 212: poet. the shores q. beneath the lashing (of the winds). trementes verbere ripas, Hor. Od. 3, 27, 23: with a q. voice, haec tremente questus ore, Hor. Epod. 5, 11.
      2. 2. trĕpĭdans: the q. entrails, trepidantia exta, Ov. M. 15, 576: with q. wing, cf. sic aquilam penna fugiunt trepidante columbae, ib. 1, 506, et passim.
      3. 3. trĕmĕfactus: leaves q. in the S. wind, folia tremefacta Noto, Prop. 2, 9, 34.
  2. B. Expr. by adjs.:
      1. 4. trĕmĕbundus: cf. tr. membra, Ov. M. 4, 133: tr. cornus (i. e. spear), Sil. 10, 119: tremebunda voce, Auct. Her. 3, 14, 25.
      2. 5. trĕmŭlus: a q. motion, tr. motus, Lucr.: cf. tr. arundo, Ov. M. 11, 190: tr. cupressus. Petr. 131: (cf. "And variable as the shade By the light q. aspen made," Scott). Comp. intrĕmŭlus, Aus. Epit. 34.
      3. 6. trĕpĭdus (rare in this sense): cf. tr. venae, Ov. M. 6, 389: in Virg. G. 4, 73--of bees--Tum trepidae inter se coëunt pennisque coruscant,--trepidae means alarmed: but the whole line implies the q. motion of the wings, the effect of which on the eye is expressed by "coruscant."
      4. 7. horrĭdus, sometimes poet.: cf. (for q. with cold) inde senilis hiems tremulo venit horrida passu (q. with shaking step), Ov. M. 15, 212. With a q. motion (adv.), trĕmŭlē, Apul. M. 5, p. 168: trepidanter (rare): cf. trep. effatus (with a q. voice), Suet. Ner. 49: v. quaking: trembling: tremulous.