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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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• spiteful:
      1. 1. mălĕvŏlus (not quite so strong as Eng.): Cic.: v. ill-disposed.
      2. 2. līvĭdus (full of rancorous, jealous feeling): s. tongue, l. lingua, Ov. F. 1, 74: Hor. Comp. Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, where the invidi et malevoli et lividi, are grouped together.
      3. 3. mălignus (most comprehensive term): the most s. people, malignissima capita, Sen. V. B. 18.
      4. 4. infestus (bitterly hostile, but not involving the idea of maliciousness): perh. the full sense of Eng. may be best expr. by joining, infestus malevolusque: infestus malignusque, etc.