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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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• brighten:
  1. A. Trans.:
    1. I. Lit.: to make bright (infrequent): v. to polish, illumine, make light.
    2. II. To cheer, enliven: q. v.
  2. B. Intrans.:
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. splendesco, dui, 3: let the ploughshare, rubbed in the furrow, begin to b., incipiat sulco attritus s. vomer, Virg.: we saw the sky b. with the flame of Etna, vidimus Aetneae coelum s. flamma, Ov.
      2. 2. nĭtesco, tui, 3: as the new moon b.s, nitescente nova luna, Plin.
      3. 3. clāresco, clārui, 3: Tac.: Sen.
      4. 4. rĕlūcesco, luxi, 3 (b. again): the image of the sun b.'d again, solis imago reluxit, Ov.: the day b.'d again, reluxit dies, Tac.: v. to clear up.
    2. II. Fig.: of the aspect of affairs, the countenance., intellect, etc.: often, to brighten up: Phr.: (his) face b.'d up, *vultus se explicavit, in hilaritatem solutus est: affairs begin to b., jam res melius ire incipiunt: v. to improve: "even slowness b.s up with affection," *amore etiam tarda ingenia nitescunt.