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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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• curse (subs.):
    1. I. The act or words:
      1. 1. exsecrātio (cf. verb): to bind any one under a c., aliquem exsecratione devincire (foll. by acc. and inf.), Cic.: simly, exsecrationibus adigere Tac.: to assail any one with fearful c.s diris ex. incessere aliquem, Suet.: also deos precari in exsecrationem alicujus, Vell.
      2. 2. imprĕcātio, prĕces: v. imprecation.
      3. 3. dīrae, arum (only in pl.: prob. with voces understood): to imprecate c.s on any one, d. alicui imprecari, precari, Plin.: Tac.: also, diris agere aliquem, Hor. (N.B. Not dētestātio, which is a formal ceremony solemnized with curses: cf. Liv. 10, 28, ad fin., where detestatio and exsecratio occur in close connexion.)
    2. II. Abstract for concr.: = bane, plague: pestis, fŭria, pernĭcies: Cic.: v. plague, pest.