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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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• sophism: (always in a contemptuous sense, and hence = a fallacious argument):
      1. 1. captio, ōnis, f.: all s.s of that kind are refuted in the same manner, omnes istius generis c. eodem modo refelluntur, Cic. Fat. 13, 30: to shatter s.s, discutere c., id.: to expose s.s, explicare c., id. Also strengthened by dialecticus: d. captiones, id. Fin. 2, 6, 17. Dimin., captiuncula, Cic. Att. 15, 7: see also fallacy.
      2. 2. căvillātio: Sen. pass.
      3. 3. sŏphisma, ătis, n. (= σόφισμα): Sen.: Gell.
      4. 4. conclūsiuncula (a silly inference): Cic. Acad. 2, 24, 75. Phr.: let us return to the s.s of Chrysippus, ad C. laqueos revertamur, Cic. Fat. 4, 7: unless we shall have shown the s.s in the speech, nisi quid in oratione vani sit docuerimus, Liv.: to have recourse to s.s, cavillor, Cic.: to explain s.s, captiosa (as neutr. subs.) solvere, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 22.