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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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• festival (subs.):
      1. 1. fēriae : v. holidays.
      2. 2. dies festus, or pl. dies festi: to celebrate the periodical f.s of the gods, dies f. et sollennes deorum celebrare, Cic.: about the time of the f., sub dies f., Cic.: the Syracusans keep the anniversary of the day as a f., Syracusani f. dies anniversarios agunt, Cic. Verr. 4, 48, extr.: to proclaim a f. to the city, diem f. urbi indicere, Justin. 24, 3.
      3. 3. festum (poet.): the f. of Venus, f. Veneris, Ov. F. 4, 877: Hor.: also pl.: f. of the Idaean mother, Idaeae festa parentis, Ov. F. 4, 182.
      4. 4. sollenne, solemne (soll.), is, n. (a f. as periodical): a f. introduced from Arcadia, s. allatum ab Arcadia, Liv. 1, 5: f. of Faith, Fidei s., Liv.: also pl.: the f. of Isis, sollennia Isidos, Prop. 3, 31 (33), 1: Suet. Of the special names of f.s, the foll. are the most important: f. of Saturn, Sāturnālia, orum and ium, n. pl.: on the second, third, day of the f. of Saturn, secundis, tertiis, Saturnalibus, Cic. Att. 13, 52: of Quirinus, Quĭrīnālia; of Bacchus, Lībĕrālia; of Pan, Lŭpercālia; of the Manes, Fērālia; of Terminus, Termĭnālia; of the mother of the gods, Mĕgălēsia; of Ceres, Cĕreālia; of Pales, Pălīlia; of Faunus, Faunālia; of Flora, Flōrālia; of Consus, Consuālia; of the Lares, Compĭtālia; in honour of the matrons, Mātrōnālia; of Minerva, Quinquātrus, uum, f. pl. and quinquātria, orum and ium. At this or that f., is expr. by the abl. without a prep. (v. supr.): as, the Pindenissians surrendered to me on the morning of the Saturnalia, Saturnalibus mane se mihi Pindenissae dediderunt, Cic. Att. 5, 20, init.: the gen. of names of f.s in ia, is more usually iorum than ium; in the dat. and abl., ibus alone is used.