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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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• river (subs.):
      1. 1. flūmen, ĭnis, n. (the most common term): a winding r., curvum f., Virg. G. 2, 12: the r. winds among the valleys, f. insinuat se inter valles, Liv. 32, 13: deep-channelled r.s, cava f., Virg. G. 1, 326: a wonderfully gentle r., incredibili lenitate f., Caes. B. G. 1, 12 up the r., adverso flumine: down the r., secundo f., id. B. G. 7, 60: the advantages arising from r.s, fluminum opportunitates, Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132. Transf.: a r. of blood, f. sanguinis, Lucr. 2, 354: v. stream, torrent.
      2. 2. flŭvius (gen. pl. fluviûm, Val. Fl. 6, 391: flūvjōrum, Virg. G. 1, 482: not in Caes.): a r. overshadowed with trees, f. opacus, Virg. Aen. 7, 36: on the banks of a r. which flows into the Black Sea, apud fluvium qui in Pontum influit, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 94.
      3. 3. amnis, is, m. (flowing water, cf. Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20: not in Caes.): a r. rich in gold, aurifer a., Catul. 29, 20: a r. that never runs dry, perennis a., Cic. Rep. 2, 5: a navigable r., a. navium patiens, Liv. 21, 31: a r. full of fords, a. vadosus, Virg. Aen. 7, 728: brimming r.s, pleni a., Ov. M. 1, 344: swollen r.s, inflati a., Liv. 40, 33: one flows like a tranquil r., the other rushes on more rapidly, alter quasi sedatus a. fluit, alter incitatior fertur, Cic. Or. 12, 39. (N.B.--On the form of the abl. cf. the comment. on Liv. 32, 10.) Phr.: to rush into the r., in aquam ruere, id. 1, 27, ad fin.: willows that grow beside r.s, amnicolae salices, Ov. M. 10, 96.