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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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• fiery:
    1. I. Of fire; having the nature of fire:
      1. 1. igneus: the f. sun, i. sol, Virg. G. 4, 426: f. summer, i. aestas, Hor. Od. 1, 17, 2: gems of a f. hue, gemmae i. colore, Plin. 8, 38, 57. Fig.: f. vigour (of the soul), i. vigor, Virg. Aen. 6, 730: Ov.
      2. 2. ignĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum (fire-bearing: poet.): the f. lightning, i. fulmen, Lucr.: Ov.
      3. 3. fervĭdus (charged with glowing heat): f. Etna, f. Aetna, Hor. Epod. 17, 32. Fig.: more f. wine, fervidius merum, Hor. Epod. 11, 15: v. glowing.
      4. 4. ardens, ntis (burning; on fire): f. South winds, a. Austri, Plin.: Hor. Fig.: f. eyes, a. oculi, Virg. G. 4, 451: cups of f. Falernian, a. Falerni pocula, Hor. Od. 2, 11, 19.
      5. 5. flammeus (strictly, consisting of flame or fire): the stars are of a f. nature, stellae sunt naturâ flammeae, Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118. Fig.: f. eyes, lumina f., Ov.
    2. II. Fig.: impetuous, eager:
      1. 1. ardens, ntis: a f. speaker, a. orator, Cic. Or. 28, 99: v. ardent, eager.
      2. 2. vĕhĕmens, ntis (energetic and vehement): Galba, even in practising (rhetoric), f. and excited, Galba etiam in meditando v. atque incensus, Cic. Br. 22, 88: a f. kind of oratory, v. orationis genus, Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 200.
      3. 3. fervĭdus: a f. kind of speaking, f. genus dicendi, Cic. Br. 68, 241: a man of f. spirit, f. animi vir, Liv.: Cat.: v. fervid.
      4. 4. călĭdus (poet.): f. Gradivus, c. Gradivus, Sil.: a horse of f. spirit, equus calidus animis, Virg. G. 3, 119.
      5. 5. fĕrox, ōcis (high spirited and impetuous: usu. to excess): he was in temperament f. and impetuous, natura f., vehemens erat, Sall. Cat. 44, fin.: you are too violent and f. by nature, nimium es vehemens f.-que natura, Cic. Vat. 2, 4: Liv.
      6. 6. cĕrebrōsus: v. choleric. N.B.--Ferox is esp. applicable to the fiery, undisciplined courage of half-civilised people: cf. Tac. Agr. 11, ad fin.