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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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• waste (adj.):
      1. 1. vastus (empty, desolate, without trees or buildings): a kind of land w. and desert, genus agrorum vastum atque desertum, Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 70.
      2. 2. dēsertus (lonely, desert): w. places, loca deserta, Caes. B. G. 5, 53.
      3. 3. incultus (uncultivated): w. regions, incultae regiones, Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 24. Phr.: to lay w.:
      4. 1. vastāre: fields laid w., agri vastati, Caes. B. G. 1, 11.
      5. 2. pŏpŭlāri: to lay w. fields, agros p., Caes. B. G. 1, 11: v. to devastate: Troy is laid w., fit vasta Troja, Pl. Bac. 4, 9, 130. Phr.: there is w. (empty) space, vacat spatium, Lucr. 1, 508: lands lie w., agri vacant, Caes. B. G. 4, 3: w. paper, chartae ineptae (silly, useless writings, such as we use thus): whatever is wrapped up in w. paper, quicquid chartis amicitur ineptis, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 270.