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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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• sharp-sighted:
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. expr. by acute cernere: cf. Lucr. 4, 811; clare cernere, Plin. 28, 8, 32.
      2. 2. acuto (acutissimo) visu praeditus. Forcell.; acri (acerrimo) visu pr., Kr.
      3. 3. perh. perspĭcax (usu. fig.: v. infr.): cf. Ter. Heaut., homo perspicacior Lynceo vel Argo; so used by Forcell. s. v. lynx. Phr.: to be as s. as Lynceus, tantum quantum Lynceus oculo contendere posse, cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 28 (which however refers to seeing far rather than seeing what is minute): intentis oculis assequi tantum quantum Lynceus assecutus esse dicitur, Döring ad 1.
    2. II. Fig.: of the mind: perspĭcax, subtīlis, etc.: v. keen-sighted. Also, acute (acutum) cernere can of course be used by metaphor: Hor. S. 1, 3, 26.