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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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• confute:
      1. 1. confūto, 1: to c. the arguments of the Stoics, argumenta Stoicorum c., Cic.
      2. 2. convinco, vīci, victum, 3: to c. the errors of Epicurus, c. errores Epicuri, Cic.
      3. 3. cŏarguo, ui, ūtum, 3: Philo c.d the error of those who thought so, Philo errorem eorum, qui ita putarunt, coarguit, Cic. To these may be added rĕfūto, rĕpello, rĕvinco, and rĕdarguo: for which see to refute. (To confute a theory is to show its emptiness in itself; to refute it, is to reply to what has been said on behalf of it.)