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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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Mĕtellē: adverbial

Mĕtelle: masc/neut voc sg

Metelle: masc voc sg

• Mĕtellus, a [etym. dub.; metellus = μισθιος, hired, i. e. a hired servant, Gloss. Philox.: metelli dicuntur in re militari quasi mercenarii, Attius in Annalibus: calones famulique metellique caculaeque; a quo genere hominum Caeciliae familiae cognomen putatur ductum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 146 and 147 Müll.],
  1. I. the name of a Roman family in the gens Caecilia; its most famous members were:
      1. 1. Q. Metellus Macedonicus, who made Macedonia a Roman province, and was renowned for his good-fortune, Vell. 1, 11, 1; Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85; id. ib. 1, 36, 86, etc.—
      2. 2. Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, who defeated Jugurtha in Numidia, Sall. J. 43 sqq.; Cic. Brut. 35, 135.—
      3. 3. L. Caecilius Metellus, who saved the palladium from the burning temple of Vesta, B. C. 241, Liv. Epit. 19; Flor. 2, 2, 27; Cic. Rep. 1, 1, 1; Juv. 6, 265; cf. id. 3, 137 sq.—
      4. 4. C. Caecilius Metellus Celer, Cicero's contemporary, and husband of Coelia, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 5, etc. —
      5. 5. Qu. Caecilius Metellus Pius (Scipio), son of Scipio Nasica, and Pompey's fatherin-law, Vell. 2, 15, 5.—
      6. 6. Caecilia Metella, wife of P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, divorced A. U. C. 709, Hor. S. 2, 3, 239; Cic. Att. 11, 23, 3; 13, 7, 1.—
      7. 7. Caecilia Metella, wife of M. Aemilius Scaurus, Cic. Sest. 47, 101.
GAF Gaffiot (2)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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Mĕtellē: adverbial

Mĕtelle: masc/neut voc sg

Metelle: masc voc sg

• 1 mĕtellus, ī, m., valet d'armée : P. Fest. 146 ; 147.
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Mĕtellē: adverbial

Mĕtelle: masc/neut voc sg

Metelle: masc voc sg

• 2 Mĕtellus, ī, m., nom d'une branche de la gens Cæcilia : Cic. Tusc. 1, 85 ; Vell. 1, 11, 1 ; Liv. Per. 19 ; Juv. 6, 265 || -llīnus, a, um, de Métellus : Metellina oratio Cic. Att. 1, 13, 5, discours contre Métellus (Népos).