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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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• foul (adj.):
    1. I. Lit.: dirty, begrimed, offensive:
      1. 1. foedus (offensive in any way): a head f. with scurf, caput porrigine f., Hor.: a f. smell, f. odor, Plin.: v. filthy, disgusting.
      2. 2. tēter (taet-), tra, trum (noisome, loathsome: a strong term): f. aspect, t. aspectus, Lucr. 2, 510: a f. smell, t. odor, Caes. B. C. 3, 49: v. loathsome.
      3. 3. immundus, lŭtŭlentus, etc.: v. dirty, filthy. To be f., squalēre: e. g., of untilled, overgrown fields, Virg. G. 1, 507.
    2. II. Fig.: heinous, abominable:
      1. 1. foedus (v. supr.): a f. deed, f. factum, facinus, Ter. Join: neque tetrius neque foedius, Cic. Rep. 2, 26.
      2. 2. tēter (v. supr.): a f. crime, t. facinus, Cic.: f. lust, t. libido, Hor.
      3. 3. inquīnātus (polluted): v. filthy, polluted.
    3. III. Opp. to honest; fraudulent: f. play, dolus malus, Cic.: Ulp. Dig. 4, 3, 1: to try to compass one's ends by f. play, dolis atque fallaciis contendere, Sall. Cat. 11: to suspect f. play, doli mali nonnihil subesse suspicari: by fair means if you can: if not by f. (lit. by any means), recte si possis; si non quocunque modo, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 65: v. dishonest.
    4. IV. In naut. phr., to fall foul of: incurrere, illīdi, collīdi: v. to fall (foul of).
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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• FOUL
1. adj., foedus (offending natural feeling, and exciting loathing and aversion; in nearly every meaning of the English word; of what is foul either outwardly, inwardly, physically, or morally; including even “foul weather,” foedae tempestates; Liv., 25, 7, 7; ☞ Verg., Georg., 1, 323): teter (hideous, shocking, exciting fear or shuddering): spurcus (probably sibilated from porcus = swinish: of coarse physical or moral filth; also, of “foul weather,” tempestas spurcissima, Cic., Frag. ap. Non., 394, 2): turpis (offending the moral feeling, and exciting disapprobation and contempt). (The words are found in this connection and order.) turpis et foedus; turpis et inhonestus: obscenus (morally unclean, obscene): non purus (opposed to purus): impurus (morally unclean, impure). A foul monster, immane ac foedum monstrum (in superlative, Cic.); homo impurus (Terentianus); persona lutulenta, impura (Cic.); homo impurus impudicusque; caput (post homines natos) deterrimum ac spurcissimum (Cic.): foul linen, *lintea sordida: foul water [Vid: IMPURE]: foul land, spurcus ager (Col., Praef., 25): a vessel that is foul, spurcum atque pollutum vas (Gell.): a foul crime, nefarium facinus (e.g., admittere, Caes.); tetrum or immane facinus (Cic.); foedum facinus (Terentianus): foul deeds or crimes, res turpes; flagitia; nefaria (plur. adjective): there is or has been some foul play, dolus or aliquid doli subest: by fair means or foul, [Vid: under FAIR, adjective]: to use foul means (opposed to fair means), vim facere: to fall foul of anything, incurrere in aliquid; of anybody, incurrere atque incidere in aliquem: to fall foul of each other, inter se collidi: to be a foul feeder, in pabulatione spurce versari (of a hog; Col.).
2. v. Vid: To DEFILE, To DIRTY.