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

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• fable (subs.):
    1. I. Any fictitious story:
      1. 1. fābŭla (esp. with an attributive,): poetic f.s, f. poeticae, Liv.: imaginary f.s, fictae f., Cic.: would you have me believe f.s? num me cogis fabulis credere? Cic. Div. 2., 55, 113.
      2. 2. expr. by fictus, commenticius: v. fiction.
    2. II. An apologue:
      1. 1. fābŭla: Phaedr.: Hor. Dimin. fābella, a short, little f., Phaedr. (who uses the twoeye words interchangeably).
      2. 2. ăpŏlŏgus (a story with an additional meaning to it; a species comprehended under the genus fabula): to tell any one a f. (parable), agere alicui a., Pl.: cf. Cic. Inv. 1, 17, 25: Gell. (who so calls the f.s of Esop: Noct. Att. 2, 29).
      3. 3. narrātio ficta, commenticia (a fictitious story, of whatever kind): v. story.
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• fable (v.):
      1. 1. commĭniscor, mentus, 3: Epicurus f.d an idle race of gods, Epicurus deos nihil agentes commentus est, Cic.: v. to invent, FABRICATE. Join: confingere et comminisci, Auct. Her.
      2. 2. expr. by fābŭla: not without reason has it been f.d that Orestes ..., non sine causa fictis f. homines memoriae prodiderunt, Orestem, etc., Cic. Mil. 3, 8: it is further f.d that ..., additur fabulae quod, etc., Liv. 1, 11: as it is f.d, ut est in fabulis (R. and A.): v. preced. art.
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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• FABLE
1. v. fabulose narrare aliquid fingere, comminisci aliquid (to feign, invent anything). ☞ Fabulari occurs nowhere in this sense.
2. s. fabula: fabella (any fictitious narrative, any tale or story; hence, of any mythological story, aesopian fable, or dramatic piece; both also, with ficta, commenticia, composita, or poetica): apologus (a fable, as a vehicle to convey a moral lesson, as the fables of aesop, Phaedrus, etc.): commentum: res commenticia: mendacium (a fictitious story, untruth): historia fabularis (the whole compass of mythology, Suet., Tiberius, 70). As the fable says, according to the fable, ut est in fabulis; ut ferunt fabulae: truth is often conveyed in the form of fable, sub fabulis velut involucris saepe veritas latet: to be fond of fables, fabulis duci or delectari: to hold anything to be a fable, falsum aliquid existimare.