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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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• school (subs.):
    1. I. A place of instruction:
      1. 1. lūdus: an elementary s., ludus literarum, Liv. 3, 44: Dionysius is said to have opened a s. at Corinth, Dionysius Corinthi dicitur ludum aperuisse, Cic. Fam. 9, 18, init. Frequently used of a school of gladiators: Caes. B. C. 1, 14 (gladiatores quos ibi Caesar in ludo habebat).
      2. 2. schŏla (usu. an advanced school for adults): out of the s.s of the philosophers. e scholis philosophorum, Cic. Or. 27, 95: to shut up s., scholam dimittere, Suet. Gr. 6.
    2. II. Meton.: the followers of a certain teacher:
      1. 1. schŏla: all the s.s of the philosophers, omnes philosophorum s., Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 56: the s. (of Isocrates) produced the most distinguished orators, (Isocratis) s. principes oratorum dedit, Quint. 12, 10, 22.
      2. 2. secta (used in speaking of the tenets of one school in contradistinction to those of other schools): to follow the s. of those philosophers, eorum philosophorum s. sequi, Cic. Brut. 31, 120: between the Stoics and the followers of the s. of Epicurus there is a continual contest, inter Stoicos et Epicuri sectam secutos pugna perpetua est, Quint. 5, 7, 35.
      3. 3. Meton., disciplīna (the total teaching and theory of any philosopher or school): almost all philosophers of all s.s, omnes fere philosophi omnium d., Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 90. In like manner, ratio. v. theory.
      4. 4. fămĭlia (rare in this sense, and used in a fig. manner): the whole s. of the Peripatetics, f. tota Peripateticorum, Cic. Div. 2, 1, 3. Phr.: the s. of Plato, Aristotle, etc., illi a Platone, Aristotele, etc.: Cic. Mur. 30, 63: also particular schools may be denoted by an adj.: e. g. the s. of Epicurus, Epicurēi; of Aristotle, *Aristotelii (-ēi); etc.
    3. III. A place to acquire or exercise anything:
      1. 1. offĭcīna (lit., a place where anything is made, a workshop): a s. of wickedness, nequitiae o., Cic. R. Am. 46, 134: a s. of wisdom, sapientiae o., Cic. Leg. 1, 13, 36: cf. Liv. 39, 8, ad fin.
      2. 2. lūdus: a s. and workshop of oratory, l. atque officina dicendi, Cic. Brut. 8, 32: a s. of impudence, l. impudentiae, Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 94. Phr.: in the school of wisdom, sapientia praeceptrice, Cic. Fin. 1, 13, 43.