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

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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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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• ball:
    1. I. A round mass:
      1. 1. glŏbus: fire-b.s were seen in the sky, in coelo animadversi globi, Cic.: the eye-b., *g. oculi: a small b., glŏbŭlus: Cato: Plin.
      2. 2. glŭmus, ĕris, n.: a b. of wool, lanae g., Lucr.: a b. of thread, lini g., Plin.: Hor.
    2. II. A playing-ball:
      1. 1. pĭla (filled with hair, feathers, &c.): to play at b., pila ludere, Cic.: to throw back a b., p. reddere, Mart.: to catch a b. and throw it back, p. excipere et remittere, Sen.: a playing-b., pila lusoria, Plin.: also sometimes of anything round: b.s of down, pilae lanuginis, Plin.
      2. 2. follis, is, m. (a b. filled with air): to play at b., folle ludere, Mart.: Pl. A small b. of that kind, follĭcŭlus: Suet. Phr.: a game at ball, pilaris lusio, Stat: a particular kind of game at b. played by three persons, lusus trigon; l. trigonalis, Hor.: Mart.: an ink-b. (in printing), *folliculus typographicus: a cannon-b., *glŏbus (the context defining it): a musket-b., glans: v. bullet.
    3. III. A meeting for dancing: saltātĭo (prop. the act of dancing): Cic.: Quint.: to invite to a b., *ad saltationem vocare, invitare.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• BALL
  • any round body, pila: a ball to throw or play with, pila with or without lusoria. The Romans had four kinds of balls: pila trigonalis or trigon (a small, hard ball stuffed with hair, played by three persons who stood in the form of a triangle, each striking it to the other with the hand or with a racket, Martialis, 4, 19, 5: to play with this ball was datatim pila ludere, Plaut., Curc, 2, 3, 17): follis: folliculus (a large leathern ball, also called follis pugillatorius. According to Georges and the Dictionary of Antiquities, it was filled with air; but Martial would seem to make it stuffed with feathers: plumea seu laxi partiris pondera follis, 4, 19, 7. To play with this ball was, pila expulsim ludere, Varr. in Non., 104, 27): paganica (a large ball, but smaller than the follis: it was stuffed with feathers, and played with in the open air, in country districts, etc.: in pagis): harpastum (ἄρπαστον, ἁρπάζω: a ball filled with cloth, feathers, etc. It was played by two parties, each of which endeavored to snatch it from the other and keep it from them; hence Martialis: sive harpasta manu pulverulenta rapis, 4, 19, 6): to throw a ball, pilam jactare or mittere: to return a ball, pilam remittere: repercutere or retorquere: the ball slips, pila e manibus labitur: to keep the ball up, pilam cadentem revocare: to raise it up again after it has fallen, repetere pilam, quae terram contigit: to play at ball, pila ludere; pila se exercere; pila exerceri: to be fond of playing at ball, ludere studiose pila: pilae studio teneri: a good player at ball, lusor bonus or exercitatus et doctns, opposed to tiro et indoctus: a play-fellow at ball, collusor: we are but balls in the hands of the gods, dii nos qua si pilas homines habent (Plaut., Capt. Prol., 22): a billiard-ball, globulus eburneus. Foot ball. follis, folliculus.
  • Any round mass, globus, pila. The earth-ball, pila terrae; or, better, globus terrae. The eyeball, pupula, pupilla, acies. The ball of the thigh-bone, caput ossis femoris. Ink-ball, used in printing, folliculus typographicus. The ball of the foot, plantae pars exstantior. For musket-ball we may say glans; for cannon-ball, globus; for bomb, pila.
  • A little ball, globulus, pilula, folliculus.
  • An entertainment for dancing, saltatio: to give a ball, saltationem instituere: to go to a ball, saltatum ire: to be at a ball, saltationi interesse.
GRG Georges (1)
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Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (8th ed., 1913/1918). Digitized data accessed from latin-dict.github.io and is in the public domain.
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Ball, pila (mit u. ohne lusoria auch = Spielball).
B. spielen, pilā ludere, gut, bene; auch pilā exerceri oder se exercere (um sich zu üben): eifrig, gern B. spielen, ludere studiose pilā; pilae studio teneri
Uneig., ein Ball des Schicksals, fortunae pila od. ludibrium: ein B. des Schicksals sein, nutum fortunae sequi; stärker iactari varietate fortunae: unser Leben ist ein B. des Schicksals, omnibus telis fortunae proposita est vita nostra.