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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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• taste (v.):
    1. I. Trans.:
      1. 1. gusto, 1 (constr. with acc. or de): they think it unlawful to t. the hare, leporem g. fas non putant, Caes. B. G. 5, 12: to t. water, aquam g., Cic. Fam. 7, 26: to t. a little of the draught, g. de potione, Suet. Tit. 2: cf. Hor. S. 2, 5, 82, Orell. Fig.: to t. the sweetness of life, g. suavitatem vitae, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 93: to t. liberty, g. libertatem, id. Rep. 2, 28: to t. the blood of the citizens, g. sanguinem civilem, id. Phil. 2, 29, 71: to t. slightly, g. primis, ut dicitur, labris, id. N. D. 1, 8, 20.
      2. 2. dēgusto, 1: to t. wine, d. vinum, Cato R. R. 148: nor was the lotos bitter to him who t.d it, nec degustanti lotos amara fuit, Ov. Pont. 4, 10, 18. Fig.: to t. the same kind of life, eandem vitam d., Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61: to t. the supreme power, d. imperium, Tac. A. 6, 20.
      3. 3. lībo, 1 (to take a little from): bees t. the streams, apes flumina libant, Virg. G. 4, 54: to t. the liver, l. jecur, Liv. 25, 16, ad init.: to t. a little of the drink, l. potionem gustu, Tac. A. 13, 16.
      4. 4. dēlībo, 1: to t. a very little meat, d. paullulum carnis, Petr. 136, 1. Fig.: to t. a new honour, d. novum honorem, Liv. 5, 12, ad fin.: Ov. Phr.: to try by t.ing, gustu explorare, Tac. A. 12, 66 to t. wine and spit it out again, pȳtissāre, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 48: a fountain that cannot be t.d, fons ingustabilis, Plin. 2, 106, 110: to t. the grass, herbam attingere, Virg. E. 5, 26: the inside of a bream as yet unt.d, ingustata ilia rhombi, Hor. S. 2, 8, 30: not to t. death, Acheronta fugere, id. Od. 3, 3, 16 (gustare mortem is only found in Eccl. and very late authors).
    2. II. Intrans.:
      1. 1. săpio, īvi or ii, 3 (with adv. or acc. that denotes the t.) the oil will t. bad, oleum male sapiet, Cato R. R. 66, 1. the fish t.s of the very sea, piscis s. ipsum mare, Sen. N. Q. 3, 18, 2: he asked how the monkey would t., quaesivit quidnam saperet simius, Phaedr. 3, 4, 3.
      2. 2. rĕsĭpio, 3: to t. of iron, r. ferrum, Varr. R. R. 1, 54, ad fin.: it is a fault to t. of anything at all, vitium est omnino quidquam r., Plin. 31, 3, 22. Fig.: a man who by no means t.s of his country, homo minime resipiens (al. respiciens) patriam, Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 46. Phr.: to smell and t. like saffron, odorem croci saporemque reddere, Plin. 36, 23, 55, extr.: discourse that t.s of the city, sermo praeferens gustum quendam urbis, Quint. 6, 3, 17: t.ing of the peculiar flavour of Athens, reddens Athenarum proprium saporem, id. 6, 3, 107: v. smack of.