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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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      1. 1. marcesco, 3 (to droop): things which bloom most charmingly f. most quickly, quae spectatissime florent celerrime marcescunt, Plin. Fig.: strength fading with old age, marcescentes senio vires, Plin.: v. to droop, wither.
      2. 2. dēflōresco, ui, 3 (strictly to shed the flower): when the flower of the bean has faded, ubi defloruit faba, Plin. Fig.: the mind flourishes and f.s with the body, cum corporibus vigent et d. animi, Liv. 6, 23.
      3. 3. palleo, pallesco, ui (to lose colour: poet.): the leaves f., pallescunt frondes, Ov. A. A. 3, 704: day f.s, pallet dies, Lucan: lest the diseased crops f. from the badness of the weather, ne vitio coeli palleat aegra seges, Ov. F. 1, 688. Phr.: the colour of a thing f.s, excidit (perit) color (alicui rei), cf. Ov. Met. 2, 601: how soon f. earth's purple hues, quam cito purpureos deperdit terra colores, Tib. 1, 4, 29.