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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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• current (subs.):
    1. I. Lit.: of water, esp. rivers:
      1. 1. Expr. by sĕcundus, adversus (with or against the c.): as, to float down the c. of a river, fluvio secundo defluere, Virg.: he let his ships follow the c. of the tide, naves mari secundo misit, Liv. 29, 7: against the c., adverso flumine, Virg.: Caes. (Simly, pronâ aquâ, prono amni, down the c., Virg.)
      2. 2. flūmen, ĭnis, n. (esp. with some word to give precision): to lean in the direction of the c., secundum naturam fluminis procumbere, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: to resist the violence of the c., contra vim impetumque fluminis, id. l. c.: to stem or break the c., vim fluminis excipere, ib.: to follow the c., flumini obsequi, Cic.
      3. 3. Expr. by verb: as, to tell the direction of the c., in utram partem fluat (Arar) judicare, Caes. B. G. 1, 12: the c. flows from you to the place where I am drinking, a te decurrit ad meos haustus liquor, Phaedr. 1, 1. Phr.: the stronger the c. might be, quo major vis aquae se incitavisset, Caes.: to swim against the (rapid) c., dirigere brachia contra torrentem, Juv. 4, 89; contra aquam natare, Sen.: to have a surprisingly slow c., incredibili lenitate fluere, Caes.: leni agmine fluere, Virg. (poet.).
    2. II. Of the sea:
      1. 1. aestus, ūs (usu. of the tides): against the current, in adversum aestum, Liv. 28, 30. having the c. in his favour (in the Mediterranean), aestu secundo, Sall. ap. Gell. 10, 26: Cic. (v. infr.).
      2. 2. frĕtum (of c.s in narrow seas): to be caught in a violent c., rapido in f. deprehendi, Liv.: what shall I say of the c.s, of the tides, quid de fretis, de marinis aestibus dicam? Cic.: carried out to sea by the c., freto in oceanum evectus, Liv. 28, 30. Phr.: to get into an adverse c., in contrarium tractum incidere, Liv. l. c.
    3. III. Of air:
      1. 1. afflātus, ūs: a c. of air from the sea, af. maris, af. maritimus, Plin.: Liv.: v. blast.
      2. 2. aura (air in motion): v. breeze. Phr.: there is always a c. of air, semper aër spiritu aliquo movetur, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 5: a free c. of air, aëris laxitas, Pall.: there are c.s of air in different directions, aër effluit huc et illuc, Cic.
    4. IV. Fig.: of opinion, events, etc.: there is an irrevocable current in human affairs, irrevocabilis cursus humana vehit, Sen.: v. course: to resist the c. of opinion, contra opinionem communem pugnare, Cic.: to be carried away in the c. of corruption, *vitiis quae hoc seculo invaluerunt corrumpi (Kr.): the c. of public opinion has set in in the opposite direction, *in contrariam partem convertit se hominum studium ac voluntas.