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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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• cloak (v.) i. e. to hide a thing under a pretext:
      1. 1. dissĭmŭlo, 1: to invent nothing, c. nothing, conceal nothing, nihil fingere, nihil d., nihil obtegere, Cic.: Sall.: v. to disguise, feign.
      2. 2. praetendo, di, sum, and tum, 3 (lit. to extend something in front, so as to hide another thing: with acc. and dat.): you are in the habit of c.ing your brutal ways with the name of a great philosopher (Pythagoras), hominis doctissimi nomen immanibus tuis moribus soles p., Cic.: Quint.
      3. 3. praetexo, ui, xtum, 3 (similar in sense to praetendo: with acc. and abl.): to c. one's fault under (another) name, culpam (alio) nomine p., Virg.: Tac. See also to hide, palliate, excuse.