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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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• feeble:
      1. 1. dēbĭlis, e (esp. of bodily or mental weakness): the body becomes f., d. fit corpus, Lucr.: lame and f. (more or less disabled) horses, claudi ac d. equi, Liv.: in this part of the mind he was f., hac parte animi d. erat, Cic. Br. 61, 219: Tac. Poet.: no f. weapon, haud d. telum, Virg.
      2. 2. infirmus (most gen. term: of whatever is deficient in strength): old age renders the body more f. (less vigorous), senectus corpus facit infirmius, Cic. Sen. 6, 15: v. weak.
      3. 3. imbēcillus (weakly: esp. of the body or things analogous): when a poor f. man is mangled by a powerful beast, quum i. homo a valentissima bestia laniatur, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, med.: the absent are present, the f. (those in ill-health) strong, absentes adsunt et i. valent, Cic. Am. 7, 23: f. pulsation, i. pulsus venarum, Cels.: v. weak.
      4. 4. invălĭdus (without [sufficient] strength: not in Cic.): v. infirm, powerless.
      5. 5. tĕnuis, e (thin, frail, poor): what f. health he enjoyed, or rather none at all, quam t. aut nulla potius valetudine fuit! Cic. Sen. 11, 35: a f. (faint) hope, t. spes, Cic. Join: tenuis atque infirmus [animus], Caes. B. C. 1, 32, fin.
      6. 6. fractus (lacking vigour; as it were broken down: fig.): hope that is feebler, spes fractior, Cic. Am. 16, 59: f. in composition and almost effeminate [charge brought against Cic.], in compositione f. et paene viro mollior, Quint. 12, 10, 12.
      7. 7. hĕbes, ĕtis (of the senses, or impressions made upon them): sight naturally f., oculus naturâ h., Plin.: Cic.: v. dull, dim.
      8. 8. (of light) obscūrus: after sunset, while there was yet a f. light, post solis occasum, jam obscura luce, Liv.: v. dim, dark. Phr.: to grow f. with old age, senectute languescere, Cic. Sen. 9, 27; marcescere, Plin. 22, 22, 38.