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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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• decay:
    1. I. As flowers: marcesco, flaccesco, dēflōresco: v. fade, wither.
    2. II. As buildings; to go to ruin:
      1. 1. dīlābor, lapsus, 3: Lucr.: Liv.: Tac. (Not labor or collabor, which denote actual falling and ruin.)
      2. 2. putresco, putris fio: i. e. to rot away: cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 49: cf. decayed.
    3. III. Fig.:
      1. 1. dēfĭcio, 3: i. e. to fail, fall short: q. v.
      2. 2. dīlābor, 3 (to go to ruin: cf. supr.): the commonwealth is d.ing, respublica dilabitur: Cic.: Hor.
      3. 3. mĭnuo, dīmĭnuo, i, ūtum, 3 (in pass.): memory d.s (with years), memoria minuitur, Cic.: v. diminish.
      4. 4. sĕnesco, ui, 3 (lit. to grow old: very freq.): to d. and soon to come to nought, s. brevique tempore ad nihilum venire, Cic.: opp. to cresco, Nep.: love d.s, s. amor, Ov.
      5. 5. tābesco, 3: v. WASTE AWAY. Comp. foll. art.