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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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• water (subs.):
      1. 1. ăqua (usual word): out of earth comes w., out of w. air, ex terra aqua, ex aqua oritur aer, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84; sea w., a. marina, Cic.: salt w., fresh w., a. salsa, dulcis, Lucr, 6, 891: river w., a. fluvialis, Virg.: Col.: rain w., a. pluvia, pluvialis, caelestis, Cic.: Virg.: Hor.: running w., a. viva, Varr.: a spring of flowing w., jugis aquae fons, Hor. Sat. 2, 6, 2: standing w., a. stagnans, Plin.: aquae in plur. of a collection of w.: a vast body of w. comes from heaven, immensum coelo venit agmen aquarum, Virg. G. 1, 322: there were floods of w. twice in that year, aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt, Liv. 24, 9: unfailing streams of w., perennes aquae, Cic. Verr. 4, 48, 107: also of the w.s of a seaside place, medicinal springs, etc.: to come for the w.s, venire ad aquas, Cic. Planc. 27, 65 (hence names of places, Aquae Sextiae, etc.).
      2. 2. lĭquor (any liquid): the intervening w., medius liquor, Hor. Od. 3, 3, 46.
      3. 3. lătex, ĭcis, m. (any liquid): sea w., l. marinus, Ov. Pont. 3, 1, 17: the w.s of Avernus, latices Averni, Virg. Aen. 4, 512.
      4. 4. lympha (esp. pure spring w.): the w. of the wells, lymphae puteales, Lucr. 6, 1172: w. of a river, l. fluvialis, Virg. Aen. 4, 635.
      5. 5. unda (a wave): snow w., undae nivales, Mart. 14, 118, 1: a spring transparent with w., fons pellucidus unda, Ov. M. 3, 161. These last four words are poetic; and in poetry other equivalents for water may stand: e. g. amnis, lacus, mare, aequor, fluctus, etc., according to the requirements of the passage. Phr.: bubbling, gushing w., scatebra, scatebrae, Plin.: Virg.: scaturigo, inis, f.: Plin.: and in plur., Liv. 44, 33: a flood of w.s, *superfusae aquae, undae: the Circus was laid under w. by the overflowing of the Tiber, Circus superfuso Tiberi irrigatus, Liv. 7, 3: river-banks under w., stagnantes ripae, Sil. 10, 89: by land and w., terra marique, terra et mari; et terra et mari, et mari et terra, mari atque terra (terra marique is most usual, the others in cases where a peculiar stress is placed on the words): to go by w., navigare: a journey by w., navigatio (opp. to pedestre iter, p. via): to convey goods by w., *merces in nave vehere, trans mare portare, exportare: he lives over (the other side of) the w., *trans mare (amnem) habitat; cf. Hor. S. 1, 9, 18, trans Tiberim cubat: to fetch w., a. petere, aquatum ire, aquari (a military term, Sall. J. 93): we see w. drawn from wells, ex puteis aquam trahi videmus, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25: to turn off w. from a stream, aquam e flumine derivare, Caes. B. G. 7, 72: the w. of the Alban lake was drawn off, aqua Albana deducta est, Cic. Div. 2, 32, 69: to back w., remos inhibere, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3. Fig.: this will not hold w., *hoc non stat, haec ratio cadit; quod ais sonat vitium, effluis (after Pers. 3, 20): a gem of the first w., *primi (eximii) splendoris gemma. For water in the sense of urine, v. urine.