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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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• first (adv.):
      1. 1. prīmum: f. of all, I myself am awake, p. omnium ego ipse vigilo, foll. by deinde, Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 19. Besides primum ... deinde, we find also, primum ... deinde ... tum ... postremo, Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 3; primum ... tum ... deinde ... post ... tum ... deinde, Cic. Fin. 5, 23, 65 (where tum appears to denote a closer connexion than deinde).
      2. 2. prīmo (usu. = at first: not used of logical arrangement): (at) f. we thought the house was falling, aedes primo ruere rebamur, Pl. (at) f. he made a show of refusal; at last he promised, primo negitare ... denique promittit, Sall. Jug. 111. (N.B.--When a person is compared with other persons, primus or prior must be used, not an adv.: cf. first, adj.) Phr.: f. of all, ante omnia. Quint.: now f. (= at last), nunc demum, jam demum (v. length, at): to do a thing f. (before any one), occupare, praeoccupare aliquem (v. to anticipate).