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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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• sense (subs.):
    1. I. Faculty or power by which external objects are perceived; sight, touch, hearing, smell, taste: sensus, ūs, m.: the s. of sight, hearing, etc., s. oculorum, aurium, Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 111; also, cernendi, audiendi, id. de Or. 2, 87, 357: which can be perceived neither by the eyes nor by the ears, nor by any s., quod neque oculis, neque auribus, neque ullo sensu percipi potest, cf. id. de Or. 2, 8, 33. Phr.: deprived of the s. of sight, hearing, oculis, auribus captus, id. Tusc. 5, 40, 117.
    2. II. Perception by the senses, sensation: sensus: v. sensation.
    3. III. Understanding, soundness of the faculties, sound judgment:
      1. 1. sensus (rare in this sense): whom success has deprived of common s., quibus fortuna sensum communem abstulit, Phaedr. 1, 7, 4: (concerning the precise import of this phr. in earlier writers, see Sir W. Hamilton's Reid, p. 758, b.): to have no s. (to be out of one's mind), sensum non habere, Ulp. Dig. 24, 3, 22, § 7.
      2. 2. prūdentia: v. prudence.
      3. 3. mens, tis, f.: v. intellect. Phr.: does he seem to you to be in his senses? num tibi videtur esse apud sese? Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 85: if this man were in his s.s, si hic mentis suae esset, Cic. Pis. 21, 50: if you had been in your s.s, si tuae mentis compos fuisses, ib. 20, 48: are you in your s.s? penes te es? Hor. S. 2, 3, 273: satin' sanus es? Ter. Andr. 4, 4, 10: cf. mad (I., Phr.): to be out of one's s.s, mente captum esse, id. Acad. 2, 17, 53: cf. mentis inops, Ov. H. 15, 139.
    4. IV. Meaning, signification:
      1. 1. sententia: the s. of the law, legis s., Cic. Leg. 2, 5, 11: v. meaning (I. 1).
      2. 2. sensus, ūs: nor could the s. of the will be gathered, nec testamenti potuit s. colligi, Phaedr. 4, 5, 19: words with two s.s, verba duos s. significantia, Quint. 6, 3, 48; cf. id. 8, 2, 20.
      3. 3. vŏluntas (spirit as opp. to mere letter, verba): Quint. 7, 10, 6: v. meaning, to mean.