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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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• distance (subs.):
    1. I. Interval of remoteness:
      1. 1. distantia (in Cic. difference: q. v.): Plin.
      2. 2. spătium, beams separated by equal d.s, trabes paribus intermissae sp., Caes.: d. of time, sp. temporis, Cic.: Caes.
      3. 3. longinquĭtas (remoteness of place or time): on account of the d., all news is very late in coming, propter l. tardissime omnia perferuntur, Cic.: v. length.
      4. 4. with the verb to be, absum: to be at a d. of two days' journey, abesse bidui, Cic.: v. distant. Phr.: at or from a d.: (1). longē (at a great d.): what is the d. from here to ..., quam l. est hinc ad, etc., Cic. (2). prŏcul (within sight): to hurl missiles from a d., tela procul (implying a greater d. than eminus, but less than longe) conjicere, Cic. (v. far). (3). ēmĭnus (opp. to cominus, which is at close quarters): the contest was waged at a d., eminus pugnabatur, Caes.
    2. II. The parts of a picture which represent more remote objects: nearest term perh. rĕcessus, ūs; or quae recedunt (in pictura); but these expressions strictly refer to the optical illusion by which an object in a picture appears to stand back, as opp. to standing out (eminere) from the plane: see Quint. 2, 17, 21: in same sense, abscedentia, ium, Vitr.
    3. III. Hauteur, coldness:
      1. 1. frīgus, ŏris, n. (on the part of a great man towards a dependant): Hor.: Sen.: v. disfavour.
      2. 2. rĕvĕrentia (the proper d. to be observed by an inferior): v. respect. Phr.: to treat a friend with d. (turn your back upon him), a. amicum, Ov.; more strongly, aversari aspectum alicujus, Tac.: *erga amicum minus familiariter (superbe, if hauteur is meant) se gerere; if on his return from some journey, excipere: to keep at a d., arcēre: v. to keep off.