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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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• rock:
      1. 1. rūpes: under a lofty r., rupe sub aeria, Virg. Georg. 4, 508: the loftiest r.s, altissimae rupes, Caes. B. G. 2, 29.
      2. 2. scŏpŭlus (pointed): impaled him on a r., s. infixit acuto, Virg. Aen. 1, 45: part of the oarsmen were dashed against the r.s, pars ad scopulos allisa, Caes. B. C. 3, 27. Meton. for difficulties: you would never have brought your plans in contact with those r.s, nunquam ad eos scopulos appulisses, Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 25.
      3. 3. cautes, is, f. (sharp r.): so that they had no need to fear ... r.s, ut ... nihil ... cautes timerent, Caes. B. G. 3, 13: the r. of Marpesus, Marpesia cautes, Virg. Aen. 6, 471.
      4. 4. saxum (any solid mass of stone) the tribunes cast him down from the Tarpeian r., de s. Tarpeio dejecerunt, Liv. 6, 20: hidden r.s, s. latentia, Virg. Aen. 1, 108: Anxur, situate on gleaming r.s, positum s. candentibus, Hor. S. 1, 5, 26.
      5. 5. petra (a Greek word: rare in Lat.): sea-mews build in r.s, gaviae in petris aedificant, Plin. H. N. 10, 32, 48: sea-weed which grows on r.s near land, quae ... juxta terram in petris nascitur, ib. 32, 6, 22. Phr.: living in r.s, saxātĭlis: one kind (of pigeon) the r. pigeon, unum genus saxatile, Var. R. R. 3, 7: made of or into r., saxeus: Niobe turned into r., saxea facta, Ov. Pont. 1, 2, 32. Fig., for without feeling: saxeus ferreusque es, Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 7.