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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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• short (adj.): Not long, not of great extent or duration:
      1. 1. brĕvis, e (most usu. term): there were two ways, the shorter of which, etc., duae erant viae, quarum brevior, etc., Nep. Eum. 8: the judge was himself (of) shorter (stature) than the witness, judex ipse brevior quam testis erat, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 245: a shorter day, dies brevior, Pl. Am. 1, 3, 51: a s. story, b. narratio, Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28: in gram.: of the quantity of syllables: a long syllable coming next to a s. one is called an iambus, syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus, Hor. A. P. 251: Cic. Comp.: perbrĕvis (very short): in a very s. time, p. tempore, Cic. Verr. 3, 9, 22. In tmesi: altera pars per mihi brevis videtur, id. Cluent. 1, 2. Dimin.: brĕvĭcŭlus (shortish: rare): a s. man, b. homo, Pl. Merc. 3, 4, 54: Apul.
      2. 2. exĭguus (denoting insufficiency, scantiness of time): s. time, tempus e., Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 92: a s. part of summer, e. pars aestatis, Caes. B. G. 4, 20, init.
      3. 3. compendiārius (of a way, a short cut): the nearest road, and as if it were a s. cut to glory, via ad gloriam proxima et quasi c., Cic. Off. 2, 12, 43. Also as subs., compendiāria (a short way): Petr. S. 2, 9: and adv., compendiāriā and compendiario (by a short cut): I will bring you by a s. way to very great wealth, ad maximas te divitias compendiaria ducam, Sen. Ep. 119, 1: cf. ib. 73, 11 (te in coelum compendiario voco). Phr.: the s. cuts of the mountain, montis compendia, Ov. M. 3, 234: to go by s. cuts, compendiis ire, Tac. A. 12, 28: to run s., ad angustias decidere, Suet. Cl. 9 (v. straits): to cut s. (i. e. to abridge), in angustum cogere, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 2: cf. Cic. Rab. perd. 2, 6, in semihorae curriculum cogere (to cut short in the way of time): to fall s. of, non pervenire ad..., non contingere (v. to fall short; also, to reach): in s. (= to be brief, to sum up), denique (v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v. No. III.).