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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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• thread (subs.):
    1. I. T. for sewing, etc.:
      1. 1. fīlum: to guide one's steps by a t., regere filo vestigia, Virg. Aen. 6, 30: Hor.: hence prov.: the safety of the republic hung on a slender t., tenui filo suspensa reipublicae salus, Val. Max. 6, 4, 1: Ov. Pont. 4, 3, 35: t. by t., fīlātim, Lucr. 2, 831. [N.B.--In the fig. sense f. denotes the style or texture of a discourse: hence such modernisms as *f. abrumpere (Wolf in Kr.) should be avoided: v. Phr.]
      2. 2. līnum (a t. of flax: esp. of the t. that secured letters): a needle with two t.s, acus duo l. ducens, Cels. 7, 14: to cut the t., incidere linum, Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 10 (of a letter).
      3. 3. līcium (t. of anything woven): to tie anything on a t. and hang it around the neck, aliquid illigatum licio e collo suspendere, Plin. 23, 7, 63, ad fin.: Ov.: of the t. of the web, Auson.
      4. 4. stāmen, ĭnis, n. (prop. the t. of the distaff, Ov. M. 4, 34): to follow the clue afforded by a t., legere s., Prop. 4, 4, 42.
      5. 5. subtēmen, ĭnis, n.: to spin t., s. nere, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 52: of the t.s of Fate, Catul. 64, 328: Hor.
      6. 6. ăcia (t. for a needle): soft t., a. mollis, Cels. 5, 26, 23.
      7. 7. līnea (a thin line of string or t.): a row of pearls on a t., l. dives, Mart. 8, 78, 7: of the t.s of a spider's web, in Plin. 11, 24, 28.
      8. 8. nēma, ătis, n.: Dig.: or nĕmen, ĭnis, n., Inscr.: v. yarn.
      9. 9. ărānea (a cobwebby t.): Plin. 24, 9, 37.
      10. 10. pānus (t. wound on a bobbin, πῆνος): Lucil.: so panuncula, Not. Tir.
      11. 11. thōmix, īcis, f.: Plin.: v. cord, line.
      12. 12. căpillus, căpillamentum (the t.-like fibres of plants): Plin.: v. fibre. Phr.: the t. of a discourse, complexus loquendi seriesque, Quint. 1, 5, 3: to keep to the t. of the narrative, tenorem in narrationibus servare, id. 10, 7, 6: v. CONNECTION, tenor: to break off the t. of one's speech, contextum dicendi intermittere, id. 10, 7, 26.
    2. II. The t. of a screw, rūga (wrinkle): the t.s of a screw, rugae per cochleam bullantes, Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317: the grooves between the t.s are called involuti canales, Vitr. 10, 6 (11), 2.