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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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• rear (subs.):
    1. I. Rear of an army on the march: novissimum agmen: Liv. 44, 32: Caes. B. G. 2, 11: novissimi, ib. 2, 25: extremum agmen, Caes. B. G. 2, 11: to annoy the r.-guard on the march, postremos in agmine tentare, Sall. Jug. 55.
    2. II. Rear of an army in order of battle: novissima acies, extrema acies: Liv. 8, 10: Sall. Jug. 54, 55: Caes. B. G. 7, 53. Phr.: having attacked the r., novissimos adorti, ib. 2, 11: having pursued the r. too eagerly, novissimum agmen cupidius insecuti, ib. 1, 15: to attack the enemy on the r., ab tergo hostes adoriri, ib. 7, 87: to bring up the r., i. e. form the r.-guard, agmen claudere or cogere: Curt. 4, 12, 7: Liv. 34, 28: that I may neither take the lead nor bring up the r., i. e. be neither first nor last, ut neque duces simus neque agmen cogamus, Cic. Att. 15, 13.