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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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• secretary:
    1. I. A person employed confidentially as a writer:
      1. 1. scrība (any kind of clerk or writer: denoting at Rome a class of inferior officials, but elsewhere, esp. with kings, an office of trust): he (Philip) employed him as his s., [ad manum] habuit eum scribae loco, Nep. Eum. 1 (see the place): cf. Liv. 2, 12, med., scriba cum rege [Porsena] sedens pari fere ornatu: Plin.
      2. 2. servus ad manum (amanuensis): Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 225: also, a manu servus, Suet. Caes. 75. And without servus: Thallo a manu, id. Aug. 67.
    2. II. A minister of state: Phr.: s. of state for the war department, colonies, etc., *qui rebus bellicis praeest, qui coloniis (administrandis) praeest s. praepositus est, etc. (Not secretarius, which is a word quite without classical authority.)