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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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• gloomy:
      1. 1. āter, tra, trum: the g. cypress, a. cupressus, Virg. Aen. 3, 64: g. Cocytus, a. Cocytus, Hor. Od. 2, 14, 17: a g. day (of death), a. dies, Virg. Aen. 6, 429.
      2. 2. furvus (chiefly poet.): the g. caverns (of Acheron), f. antra, Ov. Met. 5, 541: g. Proserpine, f. Proserpina, Hor. Od. 2, 13, 21.
      3. 3. nūbĭlus (cloudy: poet.): the g. Styx, n. Styx, Ov. Fast. 3, 322: a road g. with yews, via n. taxo, Ov. Met. 4, 432: g. fate, n. Parca, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 14.
      4. 4. tĕnebrōsus, tĕnebrĭcosus: v. dark.
      5. 5. tristis, e (properly only of persons: v. sad): g. Tartarus, t. Tartara, Virg. Aen. 6, 243: g. trees, t. arbores, Plin. 16, 25, 40: a more g. life, vita tristior, Cic. Off. 1, 30, 108: g. severity, t. severitas, Ter.
      6. 6. tetrĭcus (prop. of looks: sad and forbidding): a g. mind, [horridus et] t. animus, Sen. Ep. 36, 3: g. goddesses (i. e. the Parcae), t. deae, Mart. 4, 73, 6.
      7. 7. moestus (v. sorrowful): most g. with concealed wrath, tacita moestissimus ira, Val. Fl. 5, 568: g. orators, m. oratores, Auct. Dial. Or. 23: g. fear, m. timor, Virg.
      8. 8. caecus: v. dark.
      9. 9. caerŭleus (of dark hue: poet.): the g. bark of fate, c. ratis fati, Prop.
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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• GLOOMY
  • PROPR., Dark, obscure, Vid:
  • IMPROPR., Of the mind, countenance, aspect of things, etc., tetricus (= serious in an exaggerated degree; of persons and their looks): tristis: moestus (of persons and their looks: tristis, also of events, seasons; tempora, etc. ☞ moestus = “naturaliter tristis et severus, σκυθρωπός” [Serv.] is poetical and post-Augustan prose: oratores moesti et inculti, Tac.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) tetricus et tristis (e.g., disciplina, Liv.): obscurus: occultus (dark, reserved, as to character; opposed to simplex, apertus): A gloomy countenance, supercilium (as manifested by the contraction of the eyebrows): vultus severus et tristis (Cic.): moestus et conturbatus vultus (Auct., ad Her.): to put on or have a gloomy countenance, moesto et conturbato vultu uti (id. ib.): a gloomy character, tristitia et severitas: austeritas (sour, stern, austere character): ingenium obscurum, occultum (dark, reserved): tetricus animus (Sen.): the gloomy aspect of the times, caligo temporum, anni, etc.; gloomy political prospects, tenebrae reipublicae (Cic., Prov. Cons., 8, 43): the prospects of the country are extremely gloomy, tenebrae caecaeque nubes et procellae reipublicae impendent (Auct. Or., pro dom., 10, 24): he said that he had never felt so gloomy, dixit... nunquam sibi tantum caliginis offusum (Plin., Ep., 3, 9, 16): a certain gloomy feeling proceeding from a guilty conscience, quaedam scelerum offusa caligo (Quint., 9, 3, 47): still more gloomy prospects, spes asperior: a painter who likes gloomy colors, pictor severissimus; pictor austerior colore (both Plin.).