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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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• flood (subs.):
    1. I. An inundation: dīlŭvium, dīlŭvies: v. deluge.
    2. II. A stream, a large body of water: chiefly a poet. usage: flūmen, aequor, etc.: give the full rein to all your f.s, fluminibus vestris totas immittite habenas, Ov. Met. 1, 280: whelmed 'neath the bitter f. (of fate), flumine mersit acerbo, Virg. Aen. 6, 429: the chief part are swept away by the f., maxima pars unda rapitur, Ov. Met. 1, 311: v. river, sea, water.
    3. III. A copious outpouring; as of tears, words:
      1. 1. flūmen, ĭnis, n.: and he moistens his face with a copious f. of tears, largoque humectat fl. vultum, Virg. Aen. 1, 465: a f. of pitch sent down from the sky, picis e coelo demissum fl., Lucr. 6, 255: breathing forth the warm f. of blood from his breast, sanguinis exspirans calidum de pectore fl., Lucr. 2, 354. Fig.: to pour forth a golden f. of eloquence, fl. orationis aureum fundere, Cic. Acad. 2, 38, 119: a f. of words, fl. verborum, Cic. de Or. 2, 45, 188: such a f. of genius, tantum ingenii fl., Cic. Mar. 2, 4.
      2. 2. unda (poet.): the house vomits forth a f. of callers, salutantum vomit undam domus, Virg. G. 2, 462: the dense f.s of the Boii, spissae undae Boiorum, Sil. Phr.: to entreat with f.s of tears, multis cum lacrimis obsecrare, Caes. B. G. 1, 20: to shed f.s of tears, lacrimas profundere, effundere, Cic. (v. tears).
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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• FLOOD
  • Inundation, inundatio fluminis: eluvio: diluvium (diluvium, post-Augustan; eluvies, diluvies, diluvio, somewhat poetical). There is a flood, flumen extra ripas diffluit: flumen alveum excedit.
  • The deluge (Noah’s), eluvio terrarum (Cic., Rep., 6, 21, 23): inundatio terrarum, or from context, inundatio only (Plin. 5, 13, 14; Sen., N.Q., 3, 27, § 1 and 13; 3, 29, 1, where he uses both diluvium and inundatio. Vid: the description of “the flood,” in Sen., N.Q., 3, 27, sqq.).
  • A body of water, aquae: undae (waves): fluctus (floods).
  • Flow (opposed to ebb), accessus maris: aestus commutatio (if previous mention has been made of the ebb, Vid: Caes., B.G., 5, 8): aestus maritimi (the agitated motion of the sea in general): flood and ebb, marinorum aestuum accessus et recessus; aestus maritimi accedentes et recedentes: the flood-tide is coming in, aestus ex alto se incitat; mare intumescit; falls, aestus minuit: the flood-tide rises eighty yards above Britain, aestus intumescit octogenis cubitis supra Britanniam. [Vid: TIDE.]
  • A flood of tears, magna vis lacrimarum: a flood of words, loquacitas perennis profluens (Cic., De Or., 189).