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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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• deep (adj.):
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. altus: ditches three feet d., scrobes tribus pedibus a., Pall. (Cic. would have written tres pedes): a d. well, a. puteus, Pl.: a d. wound, a. vulnus, Virg. Very d., praealtus, Liv.: Sall.
      2. 2. prŏfundus (very deep, as an abyss): the d. sea, mare p., Cic.: d. valleys, p. valles, Stat.: v. bottomless.
      3. 3. dēpressus (rare and late): a d. place, locus d., Frontin. Phr.: a d. furrow, sulcus alte impressus, Cic.: an immensely d. cavern, spelunca infinita altitudine, id.; in mirandam altitudinem depressa, cf. id. Verr. 5, 27, 68 (but spelunca pedes quinquaginta in altitudinem would not be good: v. supr. 1): to strike d. root, radices penitus agere, Quint.
    2. II. By anal.; in various senses Phr.: d. sleep, arctus (artus) somnus, Cic.; also altus somnus, Hor.: d. silence, alta silentia, Ov.: having drawn up (his) army three d., triplici instructa acie, Sall.: ranks ten d., deni ordines in latitudinem, Frontin.: a deeper line, latior acies, Liv.: the d. gloom of a prison, profunda nox carceris, Quint.: d. and abstruse matters, res reconditae abstrusaeque, Cic.: to lay a deep plot for any one, insidias penitus abstrusas contra aliquem ponere, Cic.: he drew a d. sigh, petivit suspirium alte, Pl.: a d. conviction, opinio firma, Cic.: he stood in d. thought, stetit cogitabundus, Gell.: d. thought, attentissima cogitatio, Cic.
    3. III. Of sounds: grăvis, e: a d. sound, g. sonus, Cic.: Quint.
    4. IV. Of colours:
      1. 1. sătur, ŭra, ŭrum: a d. colour, s. color, Plin.: a deeper purple, purpura saturior, Sen.
      2. 2. sătŭrātus: Plin.
      3. 3. (?) austērus: Plin. (opp. to floridus color, 35, 12).
    5. V. Of the mind; in good sense altus: a d. or profound mind, alta indoles, Liv.: very d. learning, altissima eruditio, Plin.: v. profound.
    6. VI. = cunning, artful: callĭdus, dŏlōsus, subdŏlus: v. artful, cunning.