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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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• falter:
      1. 1. haereo, haesi, haesum, 2: I am undone: my tongue f.s with fear! perii, haeret lingua metu! Ter.: nor was there ever such eloquence as not to stumble and f., when words and heart disagree, nec unquam tanta fuit loquendi facultas, ut non titubet atque haereat, quotiens ab animo verba dissentiunt, Quint. 12, 1, 29: the war was at a stand, and Caesar's fortune f.'d, constitit bellum, fortunaque Caesaris haesit, Lucan. 7, 547.
      2. 2. haesĭto, 1 (frequent. of haereo): to speak with a f.ing tongue, lingua haesitare, Cic.: drunken men hesitate, f., retract what they have said, vinolenti dubitant, h., revocant se, Cic. Acad. 2, 17, 52: v. hesitate.
      3. 3. tĭtŭbo, 1 (to trip, stumble): a f.ing mind, titubans animus, Pl.: if the witnesses f. at a single word, si verbo titubarint testes, Cic. Fl. 10, 22.