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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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• critical:
    1. I. Relating to criticism: crĭtĭcus, M. L. passim. (But in classical Lat. the word is either a subs., = a critic, or is used in sense III.)
    2. II. Possessing skill to criticise:
      1. 1. ēlĕgans, ntis: a person of most refined c. judgment, homo in omni judicio elegantissimus, Cic.. a c. judge of beauty, e. formae judex, Ter.
      2. 2. intellĭgens, ntis (implying judiciousness, whereas elegans denotes refinement, nicety): a c. judgment, int. judicium, Cic.
      3. 3. accūrātus: v. careful, accurate.
      4. 4. fastīdiōsus: i. e. exceedingly nice, fastidious: q. v. Ph c. ears, teretes aures, Cic.; aures delicatae, Quint. (over-much so): some c. discernment, aliqua sollertia judicandi; intelligentia, Cic. Opt. Gen. Or. 4: an over c. ear, fastidium audiendi, ib: the critical, existimantes, id.
    3. III. Belonging to a crisis: (a). in medical lang. crĭtĭcus, crĭsĭmus: v. crisis. (b). in common phras.:
      1. 1. dŭbius: c. times, d. tempora, Cic.: in c. circumstances, dubiis rebus, Liv.: v. doubtful.
      2. 2. anceps, cĭpĭtis (chiefly in later writers): the commonwealth is in a c. state, in ancipiti est respublica, Tac.: Nep.
      3. 3. When joined with occasion, time, position; expr. by discrimen or tempus: as, in such a c. position, in tanto discrimine (rerum); in tali tempore: v. crisis. Phr.: to be in a c. position, in angusto esse, Curt.; in lubrico (slippery, and so perilous) versari, Cic. Join: lubricus atque incertus, id.; in praecipiti et lubrico stare, Curt.: seeing himself in a most c. position, ubi intelligit omnes fortunas suas in extremo sitas, Sall.: a c. point, cardo rerum, Virg.: simly Quint.: quae res totam rem continet (based on Cic.); unde omnia pendent: v. depend.