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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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• string (subs.):
    1. I. In general sense:
      1. 1. līnea: a s. of pearls, l. margaritarum, Scaev. Dig. 35, 2, 26: cf. Mart. 8, 78, 7, linea dives (of strings of pearls thrown among the people at the public games): a hen is kept prisoner with its leg tied by a long s., ligato pede longa l. gallina custoditur, Col. 8, 11, 15.
      2. 2. līnum: (of a letter) we cut the s. (or thread), linum incidimus, Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 10: cf. Pl. Bac. 4, 4, 64: v. also thread.
      3. 3. restĭcŭla (a small cord): v. to string (I.). Phr.: to break the s., vincula linea rumpere, Virg. Aen. 5, 510: they tighten the purse-s.s, praebent exigue sumptum, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 33. (For lit. sense, *crumenam astringere s. contrahere, may serve): to tie with s. (may be expr. by) ligare s. circumdare (v. to bind, I.: to tie) linea, etc. (v. supr.).
    2. II. A shoe-string:
      1. 1. corrĭgia: v. latchet.
      2. 2. hăbēna: the other parts (of the foot) are bound with (shoe-)s.s, cetera habenis vincta sunt, Gell. 13, 21, med.
    3. III. A musical string:
      1. 1. chorda: Calliope tries beforehand with her finger the plaintive s.s, C. querulas praetentat pollice c., Ov. M. 5, 339: cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 57, 216: v. also to strike (A., II.).
      2. 2. nervus: the lyre cunning in resounding with seven s.s, testudo resonare septem callida nervis, Hor. Od. 3, 11, 3: Cic. Brut. 54, 199.
      3. 3. fīlum: to handle the harmonious s.s of the lyre, tractare consona f. lyrae, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 60.
      4. 4. fĭdes, ium, f. (a stringed instrument): v. to string (II., Phr.). Phr.: to harp on the same s., cantilenam eandem canere, Ter. Ph. 3, 2, 10: incudem eandem tundere, Cic. de Or. 3, 27, 106.
    4. IV. A bow-string: nervus to fit arrows to the s., nervo aptare sagittas, Virg. Aen. 10, 131: Lucan. Prov.: to have two s.s to one's bow, (1.) duplici spe utier (i. e. uti), Ter. Ph. 4, 2, 13. (2.) duabus sellis sedere (to keep in with both parties), Laber. in Sen. Contr. 3, 18, fin.
    5. V. In anatom., a tendon: nervus: Cic.: v. tendon, sinew, hamstring (subs. and v.). Phr.: the s. of the tongue is cut by the surgeon's knife and loosened, lingua inhaerens scalpello resecta liberatur, based on Cic. Div. 2, 46, 96.
    6. VI. In botany, a fibre: q. v.
    7. VII. Fig.: a series or succession, q. v.: sĕries.