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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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• effeminacy:
      1. 1. mollĭtia and mollĭties, ēi (unmanly softness or weakness): to sink into e., ad mollitiem labi, Cic.: a nation enervated by e. and luxury, gens effeminata mollitie luxuriaque, Just.: indulging in e. more than any woman, [otio ac] mollitie ultra feminam fluens, Vell.
      2. 2. effēmĭnātus animi languor, Cic. Att. 16, 27. Also the neut. of effeminatus may be used in certain connexions: we must see to it, that there be no softness, e., or weakness in what we do, videndum ne quid molle, e., fractum faciamus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 30, 64.
      3. 3. effēmĭnātio (late) animi, Hieron. Phr.: with e., effeminatē, Cic. Join: molliter et effeminate, Sen.: e. of life, delicata vita, Cic.: v. effeminate.