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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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• either (conj.):
      1. 1. aut ... aut (either ... or; where the alternatives are mutually exclusive: L. G. § 570) e. true or false, aut verum aut falsum, Cic.: the first aut is not always expressed, unless emphatic.
      2. 2. vel (ve) ... vel (where the alternatives are not mutually exclusive: L. G. l. c.): an order seemly e. for peace or war, ordo vel paci vel bello decorus, Liv.: e. one (of the consuls) or both, alter ambove. Cic.
      3. 3. sīve (seu) ... sīve: v. whether.
      4. 4. expr. not ... either ... or, by nĕque (nec) ... nĕque: death does not affect e. the living or the dead, mors nec ad vivos pertinet nec ad mortuos, Cic.: the negative is often doubled: the rest I cannot e. write or think about, non possum reliqua nec scribere nec cogitare, Cic.