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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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• threshold: līmen, ĭnis, n. (prop. either the lintel or t.): in full l. inferum: hail! lintel and t., l. superum inferumque salve! Pl. Merc. 5, 1, 1: hence the pl. is often used for the whole of the lintel, t., etc.: e. g. limina floribus operire, Lucr. 4, 1169: at the very t., primo in limine, Virg. Aen. 2, 469: to put one's foot outside the t., pedem limine efferre, Cic. Cael. 14, 34: the door is close shut upon the t., amat janua l., Hor. Od. 1, 25, 4: Juv. 14, 44: Pl. Cas. 4, 4, 1: adj.: liminaris (of or belonging to the lintel or t.), Vitr. 6, 3, 4 (6, 4). Fig.: the t. of life, l. vitae, Sen. Her. Fur. 1133: the t. of war, l. belli, Tac. A. 3, 74: it may also be expr. by vestibulum: to cross the t. of any art, v. artis alicujus ingredi, Quint. 1, 5, 7. Join: v. aditusque, Cic. Or. 15, 50: v. entrance: in Sen. Ep. 49, 6, a limine salutare = to tread only on the t. of any subject, without going farther.