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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. 1. prōcērus: a t. palm tree, p. palma, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 2: very t. poplars, procerissimae populi, id. ib. 1, 5, 15: a certain man of t. stature, quidam p. staturae, Suet. Vesp. 23, init.: t. in appearance, p. habitu, Tac. H. 4, 1: t. horns, p. cornua, Col. 6, 1, 3: he wore rather high shoes to make him seem t.er than he was, usus est calceamentis altiusculis ut procerior quam erat videretur, Suet. Aug. 73.
      2. 2. altus (rare: perhaps confined to poetry): under the boughs of a t. tree, sub ramis arboris a., Lucr. 2, 30: the goddess herself is t.er than they, altior illis ipsa Dea est, Ov. M. 3, 181.
      3. 3. excelsus (elevated, high): t. birds, aves e., Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101: one horn rises t.er, unum cornu exstitit excelsius, Caes. B. G. 6, 26: t. stature, e. statura, Suet. Caes. 45: the top of a t. mountain, e. vertex montis, Virg. Aen. 5, 35: a t. tower, e. turris, Juv. 10, 106.
      4. 4. celsus (upright: with the notion of stateliness): a man of the Jewish nation t.er than the t.est German, Judaeae gentis homo procerior celsissimo Germanorum, Col. 3, 8, 2: t. towers, c. turres, Hor. Od. 2, 10, 10: a stag with t. horns, c. in cornua cervus, Ov. M. 10, 538.
      5. 5. longus: he is a foot and a half t.er than you, sesquipede est quam tu longior, Pl. Trin. 4, 2, 58: t. spears, l. hastae, Virg. Aen. 9, 229: Galatea t.er than the t. alder-tree, Galatea longa procerior alno, Ov. M. 13, 790: a very t. pine trunk, longissimus truncus (pinūs), Plin. Ep. 6, 16: a t. fellow, l. homo, Catul. 67, 47 (said in contempt).
      6. 6. praelongus (very t.): a very t. man, homo p., Quint. 6, 3, 67: the very t. slender shape (of a tree), p. gracilitas, Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 46.
      7. 7. grandis (of persons; grown up): already a t. boy, g. jam puer, Cic. Pis. 36, 87: a t. pupil, g. alumnus, Hor. Epod. 13, 11. The dimin. grandiuscŭlus (grandĭcŭlus, al.), occurs in Ter. Andr. 4, 5, 19. [N.B--Sometimes, though rarely, the notion of height may be expr. by magnus (Lucil. in Varr. L. L. 7, 3, 87, § 32), or ingens (Hor. Od. 2, 10, 9): hence in Mart. 9, 50, 4, magnus homo, by a play upon words is either a t. or a great man.] Phr.: she is t.er than all by a head, collo tenus supereminet omnes, Ov. M. 3, 181: animals that never grow very t., parvi incrementi animalia, Col. 8, 15, 6.