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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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• taunt (subs.):
      1. 1. opprobrium (not in Cic.): to be stung by unfounded t.s, morderi o. falsis, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 38: to utter coarse t.s, o. rustica fundere, id. ib. 2, 1, 146: it is shameful that these t.s could not be gainsaid, pudet haec o. non potuisse refelli, Ov. M. 1, 758.
      2. 2. convīcium (abuse): to be assailed with t.s, c. urgeri, Cic. Acad. 2. 40, 125 consectari, id. Att. 2, 18, ad init.: to endure daily t.s, c. quotidianum sustinere, id. Quint. 19. 62.
      3. 3. convīciŏlum (dimin. of preced.): to assail with t.s, c. lacessere, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 28, 7.
      4. 4. scomma, ătis, n.: Macr. Phr.: stinging t.s, aculei contumeliarum, Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 222: to assail with foul-mouthed t.s, verborum contumeliis incesto ore lacerare, id. Phil. 11, 2, 5: the brothers bandy very bitter t.s in alternate verses, alternis versibus intorquentur inter fratres gravissimae contumeliae, id. Tusc. 4, 36, 77: v. sarcasm, reproach.