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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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• sail (subs.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. vēlum (gen. term): to set s., vela dare, Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 187: Virg.: more rhetorically, v. pandere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 4, extr.: somewhat different is vela facere, to make s., as distinguished from rowing, Cic. Tusc. l. c.: to furl s., vela contrahere, Hor. Od. 2, 10, 24: subducere, Auct. B. Alex. 45: legere, Virg. G. 1, 373: full s., velis passis, Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 119.
      2. 2. poet. carbăsus, i, f.: n. pl. carbăsa, orum (lit. a kind of flax: used by meton. like our canvas): Virg. Aen. 3, 357.
      3. 3. only pl., lintea, orum: ib. 3, 686 (dare lintea retro = dare vela ...). Phr.: to set s., i. e. to commence a voyage, navem, naves solvere (weigh anchor), Caes. B. G. 4, 36: see also supr. (1).
    2. II. Meton.? = ship: use navis.
    3. III. Of a windmill perh. brāchium or vēlum.