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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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• shun (v.):
      1. 1. fŭgio, fūgi, fŭgĭtum, 3: they who are wise shun a mad poet, vesanum fugiunt poetam qui sapiunt, Hor. A. P. 455: et pass. Rarely foll. by object-infin.: s. inquiry, fuge quaerere, id. Od. 1, 9, 13. Comp.: dēfŭgio, 3 (strengthened from preced.): to s. anyone's society and conversation, aditum alicujus sermonemque d., Caes. B. G. 6, 13: to s. a battle, proelium d., id. B. C. 1, 82 also absol. Frequent. fŭgĭto, 1: to make many efforts to s. death, necem f., Phaedr. 1, 2, 26.
      2. 2. vīto, 1; and comp. dēvīto, 1: v. to avoid.
      3. 3. dēclīno, 1 (with acc.): to s. the city, urbem d., Cic. Planc. 41, 97: to s. things which are likely to prove hurtful, ea quae nocitura videantur d., id. Off. 1, 4, 11: opp. appetere, id. N. D. 3, 13, 33.
      4. 4. āversor, 1 (to turn away in disgust from): to s. effeminate arts, effeminatas artes a., Plin. Pan. 46, med.: to s. honour, honorem a., Ov. F. 1, 5: to s. conversation, sermonem a., Tac. A. 6, 26: to s. flattery, adulationes a., Suet. Tib. 27.