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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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• smack (v.):
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. To make a sharp noise in striking, etc.: Phr.: he s.'d (or cracked) his whip, insonuit flagello, Virg. Aen. 5, 579 (v. to crack, A., II.): to s. one's lips (in eating): *manducans labrorum strepitum edere (Georg.).
    2. II. To give a blow (with the hand): Phr.: to s. one's ear, alapam alicui ducere, Phaedr. 5, 3, 2 (v. box, subs.: to slap): cf. plana faciem contundere palma, Juv. 13, 128.
    3. III. To kiss noisily: Phr.: their lips s.'d in kissing as they met, osculis collisa labra crepitabant, Petr. 132, init.: he gave me, so to speak, a s.ing kiss every now and then, me tanquam furtivis subinde osculis verberabat, Petr. 26, med.: cf. basia alicui impingere, id. 31, init.: and, suavia oppingere, Pl. Curcul. 1, 1, 60.
  2. B. Intrans.: To savour, taste of, q. v.:
      1. 1. săpio, īvi or ĭi, 3 (gen. with acc. denoting the taste): to s. of the sea, s. mare, Sen. Q. N. 3, 18. to s. badly of oil, oleum male s., Cato R. R. 66: v. flavour (subs. and verb).
      2. 2. rĕsĭpio, 3 (like sapio): the grape s.s of the pitch, (uva) picem r., Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 18. Fig.: those comedies s. of the style of Plautus, istae (comoediae) r. stilum Plautinum, Gell. 3, 3, ad fin.
      3. 3. ŏleo, ŏlui, 2 (gen. with acc. of the object of smell): to s. of saffron, crocum o., Cic. de Or. 3, 25, 99: cf. vina fere dulces oluerunt mane Camenae, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 5. Fig.: to s. of the foreigner, o. peregrinum, Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 44.
      4. 4. rĕdŏleo, 2: vinum redolens, Cic.: unguenta, Plin.: see also to smell. Fig.: speeches s.ing of antiquity, orationes redolentes antiquitatem, Cic. Brut. 21, 82.