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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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• sure:
    1. I. Objectively, certain, not to be doubted:
      1. 1. certus: v. certain.
      2. 2. compertus (proved, satisfactorily made out): facts s. and certain, comperta et explorata, Liv. 42, 13, init. (opp. incertis jactata rumoribus): Cic.
      3. 3. explōrātus: v. certain.
    2. II. To be trusted:
      1. 1. certus: a s. friend, c. amicus, Enn. in Cic.: s. men, Cic. Fam. 1, 7.
      2. 2. fīdus: v. faithful, trusty.
    3. III. Subjectively, entertaining no doubt: usu. best expr. by phr.: I am quite s., compertum habeo, Sall. Cat. 58, init.: and with a certain diff. of meaning, mihi persuadeo, Cic. R. A. 2, extr.: also, mihi persuadetur, Caes. B. G. 1, 40: and persuasum habeo, ib. 3, 2, extr. [N.B.--Compertum habeo denotes the certainty resulting from external proof: the other phrr. only subjective conviction.] Parenthetically, I am s., may be expr. by hercle, mehercle, etc.: v. surely.