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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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• fast (v.): to abstain from food:
      1. 1. jējūnus sum: I had f.'d so completely for two days as not even to taste water, biduum ita jejunus fueram., ut ne aquam quidem gustarem, Cic. Fam. 7, 26: a stomach that seldom f.s, loathes homely fare, raro jejunus stomachus vulgaria temnit, Hor. S. 2, 2, 38.
      2. 2. jējūno, 1 (unclassical): Hier.: Tert.
      3. 3. jējūnium servo: used of special religious observance: no Jew f.s so scrupulously on his sabbaths as I have done on this, ne Judaeus quidem tam diligenter sabbatis jejunium s., quam ego hodie servavi, Suet. Aug. 76.
      4. 4. abstĭneo, ui, tentum, 2: (properly, with abl. expressed): the patient ought to f. the day before, that he may be fit for such a treatment, pridie abs. debet aeger, ut aptus tali curationi sit, Cels. (not so in Cic.): more fully., aqua ciboque abs., Col.