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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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• eloquent:
      1. 1. ēlŏquens, ntis (for syn. v. eloquence): I have known some clever speakers, but as yet not one e. man, disertos cognovi nonnullos, e. adhuc neminem, Cic. Or. 1, 21, 94: where the eloquens is further defined, "eloquentem vero, qui mirabilius et magnificentius augere posset atque ornare quae vellet." Join: eloquens et in dicendo suavis et ornatus, Cic.
      2. 2. fācundus (for syn. v. eloquence): the e. Ulysses, f. Ulysses, Ov.: (Mercury) e. grandson of Atlas, f. nepos Atlantis, Hor.: Sall.: Tac.
      3. 3. dĭsertus (able to express oneself freely and grammatically: v. supr. 1): Join: copiosus et disertus, Cic.; disertus et ornate dicens, Cic. Quint. has disertus of the truly eloquent man: it is the heart and the energy of soul that makes men e., pectus est quod disertos facit, et vis mentis, 10, 7, 15. Phr.: to be very e., imprimis in dicendo florere, Nep.; dicendi facultate florere, Cic.; *plurimum in dicendo valere, pollere: to be the most e. of all, eloquentia omnes praestare, Nep.