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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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• severity:
    1. I. Harshness, rigour:
      1. 1. sĕvērĭtas (in good or bad sense): s. of the courts, judiciorum s., Cic. Sull. fin. (opp. to lenitas ac misericordia): censorial s. (in good sense), censoria s., id. Pis. 4, fin.: Caes.
      2. 2. ăcerbĭtas (extreme and cruel s.): Cic. Sull. l. c. (see the place).
      3. 3. dūrĭtia (not in Cic.): s. of laws, d. legum (opp. to lenitas), Suet. Cl. 14: Tac.
      4. 4. atrōcĭtas (savage and bloody s.): v. cruelty. Phr.: to treat the guilty with s., nocentes insectari, Plin. Ep. 9, 13, 2: cf. Cic. Am. 16, 57, acerbius in aliquem invehi, insectarique vehementius.
      5. 5. austērĭtas (rare in this sense): Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 5 (s. in criticism).
    2. II. Austereness:
      1. 1. sĕvērĭtas (esp. a proper and laudable strictness): Ter. Andr. 5, 2, 16 (tristis s. in vultu, in good sense). Join: gravitas severitasque, Cic. Mur. 31, fin. (The excess of severitas passes into tristitia and morositas, gloominess and moroseness: cf. Gierig on Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 7.)
      2. 2. horror (late in this sense: denotes an excess of austerity): Plin. Ep. ib.
      3. 3. expr. by circuml. with adj.: v. severe (II.).
    3. III. Great nicety in taste or judgment: sĕvērĭtas: Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 19 ("severitas aurium alias tribuitur iis qui excellunt in dijudicando numero oratorio et sono verborum, Quint. 9, 4, 116."--Gierig). See also nicety.
    4. IV. As denoting extreme degree of pain, cold, etc.; and generally, grievousness to be borne:
      1. 1. grăvĭtas: s. of climate, g. coeli [aquarumque, referring to heavy rains], Liv. 23, 34, med.: s. of a disease, g. morbi, Cic. N. D. 3, 31, 76.
      2. 2. vis, rĭgor: v. intensity.
      3. 3. intempĕries, ēi (of climate): Liv. 8, 18, init. (where, however, the phr. denotes not intensity or rigour of cold, but rather unhealthiness in general).
      4. 4. inclēmentia: esp. of climate: inc. coeli, Just. 9, 2, med. (late, however, in this sense).
      5. 5. expr. by adj.: such is the s. of the climate, adeo acria frigora sunt: v. severe (IV.).