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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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• circle (subs.):
    1. I. A geometrical figure, or what is arranged in such a figure:
      1. 1. circŭlus: the outer c. of the walls, c. muri exterior, Liv.: the stars complete their c s and orbits, stellae c. suos orbesque conficiunt, Cic.: the arctic c., c. septentrionalis, Varr.: Sen.
      2. 2. orbis, is, m. (the most usu. word to denote anything round): to twirl a sling in a c., fundum in orbem torquere, Cic.: to ride in a c., equitare in orbem, Ov.: the c. of a wheel, o. rotae, Ov.: the soldiers arranged themselves in a c., milites in orbem constiterunt, Caes. Dimin.: orbĭcŭlus, a small c.; esp. of wheels: Cato: Plin.
      3. 3. gȳrus (esp. of the wheeling, circular movements made by animals: v. TO WHEEL ROUND): bees perform c.s in their flight, apes volatu gyros edunt, Plin.: so, gyros trahere, Virg.; g. ducere, Ov. Fig.: v. compass. Phr.: the common people standing in a c., vulgi stante corona, Ov.: he drew a c. round him as he stood, with a stick, virgula stantem circumscripsit, Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 23 (but of course an exact circle is not meant): to describe a c., circinationem circuli describere, Vitr.; ducere rotundam circinationem, Vitr.
    2. II. Compass, circuit (q. v.).
    3. III. A group of persons:
      1. 1. circŭlus: v. group.
      2. 2. cŏrōna: Cic.: Liv.: Ov. Phr.: in the family c., domi; una cum suis: v. at home: I find my only pleasure in the family c., privata modo et domestica nos delectant, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6: to have a wide c. of friends, in magna celebritate amicorum vivere, versari, cf. Cic. Off. 3, 1, 3.
    4. IV. In argument: Phr.: to argue in a c., *quasi gyro quodam in argumentando uti; vitio quodam argumentandi quae sumpta sunt pro argumentis adhibere: (not eodem revolvi, as given by Kraft, etc., which means to come or amount to the same thing).