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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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• sensation:
    1. I. An impression conveyed by the senses: sensus, ūs (more freq. in sense II.): a bodily s., corporis s., Lucr. 2, 435: an agreeable or painful s., voluptatis, doloris s., Cic. N. D. 3, 13, 32. (Or expr. by verb: *quod sentitur, sensibus percipitur: v. to feel, perceive.)
    2. II. The faculty of sensation: sensus: v. sense, perception. Phr.: to be without s., nihil sentire, Liv. 42, 16; of a limb benumbed, torpere, Suet. Aug. 80 (frigore torpens digitus): to lose s., torpescere, Plin. 11, 37, 89; more freq. obtorpescere: v. insensible.
    3. III. A striking impression: Phr.: to make a s., conspici (to attract attention, draw all eyes): cf. Liv. 5, 23, maxime conspectus ipse est, curru albis equis juncto in urbem invectus: or expr. by stupēre, stupefacere: etc.: who is it that creates a s.? quem stupefacti intuentur dicentem? Cic. de Or. 3, 14, 53: what a s. he produces by his delivery of these lines, *hos versus agendo quantopere animos audientium commovet; *hi quum aguntur versus ut audientium animi commoventur atque stupescunt!