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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.
• filth:
    1. I. Lit.:
      1. 1. coenum (gen. term: offensive mire): f. of sewers, c. cloacarum, Cic.: Col.: besmeared with f., coeno oblitus, Cic.: v. to besmear. Fig.: to wallow in gloom and f., in tenebris volvi c.que, Lucr. 3, 77.
      2. 2. sordes, is, f.; usu. pl. (f. resulting from uncleanly habits: but oftener in fig. sense: v. meanness): ears suffering from accumulated f., auriculae collecta s. dolentes, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 53: let the nails be free from f., sint sine sordibus ungues, Ov. A. A. 1, 519. Freq. a term of contempt: amongst the f. and dregs of the city, apud sordem urbis et faecem, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 6.
      3. 3. squālor (a state of personal shabbiness and dirt): covered with f. and dust, s. plenus ac pulveris, Cic. Verr. 3, 12, 31: clothes covered with f., vestis squalore obsita, Liv. 2, 23, ad init.
      4. 4. paedor (personal offensive state: stronger than preced.): limbs disgustingly covered with f., membra paedore horrida, Lucr. 6, 1269: disgusting f., foedus p., Sen.: cf. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26.
      5. 5. collŭvies, ēi; also collŭvio, ōnis (strictly, that which has been washed together; a mass of impurity): a sewer is a hollow place through which the f. flows, cloaca est locus cavus per quem colluvies fluit, Ulp. Dig. 43, 22, 1: f. of sewers, colluviones cloacarum, Arnob.: Cic. (who uses the word fig.: cf. Cic. Sen. 23, 85).
      6. 6. illŭvies, ēi (as resting upon anything): covered with f. and dust, illuvie ac squalore obsitus, Tac.
      7. 7. lŭtum (mud of any kind: v. dirt, mire): Pl.
    2. II. Fig.: moral impurity: impūrĭtas, foedĭtas, obscaenĭtas: v. obscenity, impurity.
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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• FILTH, FILTHINESS
sordes (opposed to splendor; the result of indigence, or niggardliness and vulgarity; e.g., of clothes dirty from long wear, ῥύπος): squalor (opposed to nitor, through want of civilized habits, and of delicacy of feeling, etc.; e.g., uncombed hair, αὐχμός): paedor (opposed to munditiae, through neglect of the person; e.g., through paediculos, vermin, itch, etc., πίνος): situs (opposed to usus; in consequence of long disuse; e.g., through mould, rust, etc., ἄζη). - lutum (mud or dirt of streets, roads, etc.; i. e., earth and water): coenum (mire, mud, as defiling and disgusting): illuvies (heaped up dirt, etc., that has gradually collected, and become a large offensive mass): purgamentum (offscourings, foul water, etc.). Covered with filth, oblitus luto, limo, coeno; obsitus sordibus, squalore, paedore; squalore sordidus; paedore horridus: to be covered with filth, situ squalere.