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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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• sensitive:
    1. I. Capable of sensation: sensĭlis: v. sensible (II.).
    2. II. Possessing acute sensibility:
      1. 1. perh. mollis (an epith. usu. implying a want of sufficient firmness and manliness): cf. Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1, quam mollis animus et ad accipiendam et ad deponendam offensionem (how extremely s.; ready both to take offence and to forgive): so, molle os, denotes a countenance easily blushing: Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 70. So, agilitas mollitiesque naturae, Cic. l. c., denotes a sensitive disposition.
      2. 2. simly., tĕner: cf. Cic. Fin. 5, 21, fin., teneriore animo mihi videbare (sensitive to weakness).