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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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• embrace (subs.):
      1. 1. amplexus, ūs: to bestow e.s, amplexus dare, Virg.: to hold any one in an e., amplexu tenere aliquem, Tac.: to be locked in an e., amplexibus haerere, Val. Fl.; circumfundi amplexibus alicujus, Vell. (The plur. is esp. used of the e.s of lovers.) By anal., folded in the e. of a serpent, circumplicatus serpentis amplexu, Cic.: also of a river, Cic.
      2. 2. complexus., ūs (for syn., v. to embrace, 2): to fly to any one's e., ad complexum alicujus currere, Cic. Join: in sinum et c. alicujus (venire), Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 61. Fig.: the universe which holds all things in its e., mundus qui omnia c. suo continet, Cic.
      3. 3. compressus, ūs (sexual): Ter.