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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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    1. I. At times:
      1. 1. ălĭquando: moral rectitude s. clashes with expediency, utilitas a. cum honestate pugnat, Cic. Off. 3, 3, 12.
      2. 2. nonnunquam: s. by day, oftener by night, n. interdiu, saepius noctu, Caes. B. G. 1, 8: Cic.
      3. 3. ōlim (poet.): as coaxing teachers s. give boys cakes, ut pueris o. dant crustula blandi doctores, Hor. S. 1, 1, 25: Ov.: Virg.
      4. 4. interdum: s., or rather exceedingly often, i. vel potius nimium saepe, Cic.
      5. 5. quandoque (now and then): s. ships are made, s. shields, q. fiunt trabes, q. clipei, Sen. Q. N. 1, 1, extr.
      6. 6. sŭbindĕ: v. occasionally.
    2. II. As correl., sometimes ... sometimes:
      1. 1. mŏdŏ ... mŏdŏ: or in place of the second modo, some other adverb (see Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v., and art. now, II.).
      2. 2. nunc ... nunc: v. now (II.).
      3. 3. ălias ... ălias: to be s. happy, s. wretched, a. beatus esse, a. miser, Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 87. Or alias in connexion with alius, aliter, for which alio tempore may be used: v. now (II.).
      4. 4. interdum ... interdum: s. in speech the flow is very rapid, s. the pace is moderate, i. cursus est in oratione incitatior, i. moderata ingressio, Cic. Or. 59, 201.
      5. 5. interim ... interim (rare): Quint. 5, 10, 34.
      6. 6. quandoque ... quandoque (v. supr. I. 5). Phr.: cranes standing s. on one leg, s. on the other, grues alternis pedibus insistentes, Plin. 10, 23, 30, § 59 (cf. alterno terram quatiunt pede, Hor. Od. 1, 4, 7): v. alternately: hope and fear together make it s. credible, s. not, alternant spesque timorque fidem, Ov. H. 6, 38.