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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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• simple (adj.):
    1. I. Not complex: simplex, ĭcis: opp. concretus ex pluribus naturis (compound), Cic. N. D. 3, 14, init.: opp. copulatus, id. Fat. 13, 30 (where the reference is to absolute and related propositions): Ter.
    2. II. Not elaborate:
      1. 1. simplex: Hor. Od. 1, 5, 5: s. food, s. esca, id. S. 2, 2, 73: s. cibus, Plin. 11, 53, 117. Join: simplex atque inaffectatus, Quint. 9, 4, 17.
      2. 2. rŭdis (unpolished): Join: rudia et incompositis similia (dicere), Quint. l. c.: v. rude.
      3. 3. incondĭtus (put together without art): s. strains, i. carmina, Liv. 4, 20, init.: Cic.
    3. III. Artless, free from guile and suspicion:
      1. 1. simplex: Join: (vir) apertus et simplex, Cic. Rep. 3, 16: s. fortisque (of a blunt outspoken character), Hor. S. 1, 3, 52: nihil simplex, nihil sincerum, Cic. Att. 10, 6.
      2. 2. sincērus: v. sincere, frank.
    4. IV. Weak-minded: ĭneptus: v. foolish. (Hebetioris ingenii, R. and A.) Phr.: I am not so s. as to believe, non is sum qui credam, ib. Sometimes credulus may be the right word: cf. Virg. E. 9, 34, non ego credulus illis, I am not so s. as to believe them: also Hor. Od. 1, 5, 9, qui nunc te fruitur credulus (simple youth!) aurea.
    5. V. Sheer, without qualification: mĕrus, germānus: v. sheer, genuine.