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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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• skeleton:
      1. 1. larva: a s. modelled in silver, l. argentea, Petr. 34, 8.
      2. 2. scĕlĕtos, i, m. (σκελετὸς): App. Apol. p. 315.
      3. 3. expr. more usu. by ossa. the human s., ossium positus figuraque, Cels. 8, 1, ad init.: ossa corpori subjecta, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 139: the ghostly form of a fleshless s., larvalis habitus nudis ossibus cohaerens, Sen. Ep. 24, 18 (R. and A.). Fig.: of style: to imitate not merely the lifeless s., but the body itself, imitari non ossa solum sed etiam sanguinem, Cic. Brut. 17, 68: v. also framework. Phr.: (i.) Lit.: a s., corpus, Plin. 7, 16, 16: eviscerata forma diri cadaveris (prorsus horribilis et larvalis), App. Apol. p. 314, ad fin. (ii.) Transf.: to be a mere s., vix ossibus haerere, Virg. E. 3, 102: macie suprema confici, id. Aen. 3, 590: totum ossa atque pellem esse, Pl. Aul. 3, 6, 28: s.s, nay, ghosts of men, effigies, immo umbrae hominum, Liv. 21, 40. (iii.) s.-key, perh. clavis Laconica, Pl. Most. 2, 1, 57: v. comm. ad loc., and Dict. Ant. under clavis: c. adulterinae (Sall. J. 12) are sham keys.