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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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• error:
    1. I. A mistake:
      1. 1. error (either a course of error, or any particular erroneous opinion): to lead the inexperienced into e., imperitos inducere in errorem, Cic.: to refute or remove an e., e. tollere, Cic. Rep. 1, 24: I shall be thankful to be delivered by you from an e., me libente mihi eripies hunc e., Cic. Att. 10, 4, 1, fin.
      2. 2. errātum (a particular instance of error): an e. of the artisan (putting a false inscription to a statue), e. fabrile, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 14: to labour under the same e.s, iisdem in e. esse, Cic. N. D. 1, 12, fin.
      3. 3. peccātum (a breach of some direct law): v. blunder, and infr. III.
      4. 4. very often expr. by erro, pecco, 1, esp. with neut. adj.: to be guilty of very many e.s, permulta errare, magnopere errare, etc.: v. to err.
    2. II. Of the press, etc.: *erratum typographicum, operarum (cf. supr. 1); *error operarum, Blomf.; mendum typographicum, Wyttenb. (in Kr.). Phr.: to correct e.s of the press, librum ab operarum erroribus purgare, Wyttenb. (in Kr.): the book is full of typographical e.s, *plurima insunt libro vitia typographica; plurima typographorum incuriâ neglecta sunt: a clerical e., *scripturae mendum; mendum scribendi incuria admissum.
    3. III. Moral:
      1. 1. peccātum: v. sin, offence, fault.
      2. 2. errātum: I will not say for no fault, but not even for an e., ob nullum non dicam vitium, sed e.. Cic. Clu. 48., 133. (In this sense error is rare, and poet.: v. L. Dict. s. v.).
      3. 3. expr. by pecco, with neut. pron.: v. supr. (I., 4.).