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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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• worse (adj.):
      1. 1. pējor (more positively bad, in a comparison of two evils): a disgraceful escape from death is w. than any death, turpis fuga mortis est omni morte pejor, Cic. Phil. 8, 10, 29: the matter cannot be in a w. state, pejore res loco non potis est esse, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 46: to fall away to the w., in pejus ruere, Virg. G. 1, 200.
      2. 2. dētĕrior (less good, that has degenerated): the fall has not made my property w., ruina rem non fecit deteriorem, Cic. Att. 14, 11, 2: the w. cause in court, deterior causa in judiciis, id. Caec. 16, 46: empire changed for the w., mutatus in deterius principatus, Tac. A. 4, 6.
      3. 3. grăvĭor (more severe): a w. wound, gravius vulnus, Caes. B. G. 1, 48.
      4. 4. vīlior (more worthless): birth and worth without money is w. than mere seaweed, genus et virtus nisi cum re vilius alga est, Hor. S. 2, 5, 8. Worse serves loosely for comparative in many kinds of badness: hence many Latin comparatives may at times express it: he is wicked, dishonourable, base, etc., you are w., * ille scelestus, inhonestus, turpis, tu scelestior, inhonestior, turpior: a w. fault, major culpa, Hor.: v. bad. Phr.: fruits grow w., poma degenerant, Virg. G. 2, 59: the evil grows w. every day, ingravescit in dies malum, Cic. Brut. 1, 10, 1: a disease growing w., ingravescens morbus, id. Div. 2, 6, 16: slothfulness will grow w., intendetur socordia, Tac. A. 2, 38: to make the morals of a state w. or better, vel corrumpere mores civitatis vel corrigere, Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32: things marred and made w., corrupta ac depravata, id. Mur. 12, 27: there is nothing, Antipho, that cannot be made w. by bad telling, nil est, Antipho, quin male narrando possit depravarier, Ter. Ph. 4, 4, 16: to make a matter w. by words, verbis rem exasperare, Quint. 4, 2, 75: by which matters had been made w., quo aggravatae res essent, Liv. 4, 12: she makes my suffering w., illa meos casus ingravat, Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 60: I can be none the w. for what they may do, mihi nihil ab istis noceri potest, Cic. Cat. 3, 12, 27: to come out none the w., totus et integer exire, Pers. 15, 173.