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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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• civilize:
      1. 1. excŏlo, cŏlui, cultum, 3: from a rude and barbarous state of existence we have been c.d and softened into refinement, ex agresti immanique vita exculti ad humanitatem et mitigati sumus, Cic.: a c.d life, exculta vita, Cic.
      2. 2. expŏlĭo, 4: Cic.: Gell.: v. to polish.
      3. 3. ēmollio, 4: Ov.: Tac.: v. to soften. Phr.: he c.d the minds of men, which by the pursuits of war had become savage and wild, ad humanitatem atque mansuetudinem revocavit animos hominum studiis bellandi jam immanes ac feros, Cic. (cf. preced. art.).