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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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• compass (subs.):
    1. I. Stretch, scope:
      1. 1. gȳrus, i, m.: you confine the orator to a very narrow c., in exiguum sane g. oratorem compellitis, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 70: Col.
      2. 2. fīnes, cancelli: v. limits, BOUNDARIES. Phr: to treat (the whole subject of civil law) within a narrow c., in parvum quendam angustumque concludere, Cic.; so, in exiguum angustumque concludere, Cic.: to confine oneself within a narrow c. (of literal translation), in artum (arctum) desilire, Hor.: he would sing through the whole c. of his voice, citaret, modo summa voce, modo hac resonat quae chordis quatuor ima, Hor.: v. extent, reach, circumference.
    2. II. Compasses, pair of: circĭnus: Caes.: Vitr.
    3. III. Mariner's c.: "pyxis nautica; magneticae acus capsula": Kr. (Perh. better *acus magnetica alone.)