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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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• tolerable:
    1. I. Lit.: capable of being endured:
      1. 1. tŏlĕrābĭlis: t. slavery, t. conditio servitutis, Cic. Cat. 4, 8, 16.
      2. 2. tŏlĕrandus: scarcely t. poverty, inopia vix t., Tac. H. 1, 21.
      3. 3. pătĭbĭlis: pain must be regarded as t., p. dolores putandi sunt, Cic. Tusc. 4, 23, 51. Phr.: to render labour t, laborem levare alicui, id. Or. 34, 120: mitigare labores: id. de Or. 3, 4, 14: v. to alleviate, lighten.
    2. II. Transf.: moderately good:
      1. 1. tŏlĕrābĭlis: t. speakers, t. oratores, id. de Or. 1, 2, 8.
      2. 2. mĕdiocris (often in bad sense, ordinary): Cic.: Caes.
      3. 3. mŏdĭcus: a book of t. size, modicum quoddam corpus (historiae), Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 4: you have a t. competence, est tibi far m., Pers. 3, 25.
      4. 4. ălĭquantus (considerable): a t. number of arms, a. numerus armorum, Sall. J. 74: neut. used as subs.: a t. amount of land, aliquantum agri, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33.
      5. 5. freq. expr. by sătis with adj.: a t. singer, s. bonus cantor, Cic.
      6. 6. expr. by neg. with adj., etc.: very t. speeches, orationes non contemnendae saneque tolerabiles, Cic. Brut. 79, 273. Phr.: who does not know how few t. actors there are? quis ignorat quam pauci sint quos aequo animo spectare possimus? id. de Or. 1, 5, 18.