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

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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nefās:

• nĕ-fas, n. indecl., something contrary to divine law, sinful, unlawful, execrable, abominable, criminal; an impious or wicked deed, a sin, a crime (cf.: scelus, flagitium, peccatum).
  1. I. Lit.: quicquid non licet, nefas putare debemus, Cic. Par. 3, 2. 25; cf.: officia tua mihi nefas est oblivisci, id. Fam. 15, 21, 5: Mercurius, quem Aegyptii nefas habent nominare, id. N. D. 3, 22, 56: nefas est dictu, miseram fuisse talem senectutem, id. Sen. 5, 13: eum, cui nihil umquam nefas fuit, id. Mil. 27, 73: quibus nefas est ... deserere patronos, Caes. B. G. 7, 40: corpora viva nefas Stygiā vectare carinā, Verg. A. 6, 391: fas atque nefas, right and wrong, id. G. 1, 505; Hor. Epod. 5, 87; cf. id. C. 1, 18, 10; Ov. M. 6, 585: per omne fas ac nefas, in every way, Liv. 6, 14, 10: nefas triste piare, Verg. A. 2, 184: illa dolos dirumque nefas in pectore versat, Certa mori, id. ib. 4, 563: lex maculosum edomuit nefas, i. e. adultery, Hor. C. 4, 5, 22: in omne nefas se parare, Ov. M. 6, 613: summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori, Juv. 8, 83: belli, civil war, Luc. 2, 507; cf.: fugiens civile nefas, id. 7, 432: magnum nefas contrahere, Just. 24, 3: facere nefas, Vulg. Deut. 22, 21: operari, ib. Lev. 20, 13.—Poet., of a wicked person, a wretch, monster: exstinxisse nefas tamen ... Laudabor (i. e. Helen, as the destroyer of Troy), Verg. A. 2, 585.—Also inserted as an interjection, O horrid! shocking! dreadful! quātenus, heu nefas! virtutem incolumem odimus, Hor. C. 3, 24, 30; cf.: heu nefas, heu! id. ib. 4, 6, 17: quosne, nefas! omnes infandā in morte reliqui? Verg. A. 10, 673: sequiturque, nefas! Aegyptia conjux, id. ib. 8, 688: Lavinia virgo Visa, nefas! longis comprendere crinibus ignem, O horrible! id. ib. 7, 73.—Esp.: est nefas, it is forbidden, contrary to law, Varr. L. L. 6, 4. —
  2. II. Poet., transf.
    1. A. A horrible or monstrous thing: Eumenides Stygiumque nefas, Luc. 6, 695; 1, 626: infernum, id. 7, 170; Stat. Th. 6, 942.—
    2. B. Impossible: levius fit patientiā Quicquid corrigere est nefas, an impossibility (= ἀθέμιτον, ἀδύνατον), Hor. C. 1, 24, 20.
GAF Gaffiot (1)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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nefās:

• nĕfās, n. indécl. (nĕ = non, fas),
1. ce qui est contraire à la volonté divine, aux lois religieuses, aux lois de la nature ; ce qui est impie, sacrilège, injuste, criminel : quicquid non licet, nefas putare debemus Cic. Par. 25, tout ce qui n'est pas permis, nous devons le regarder comme sacrilège [doctrine stoïcienne] ; nefas habent eum nominare Cic. Nat. 3, 56, ils considèrent comme une impiété de le nommer ; nefas est dictu, miseram fuisse talem senectutem Cic. CM 13, il est injuste de dire qu'une telle vieillesse fut malheureuse ; quibus nefas est deserere patronos Cæs. G. 7, 40, pour qui c'est un crime que d'abandonner leurs patrons ; quicquid corrigere est nefas Hor. O. 1, 24, 20, tout ce qu'il est interdit à l'homme de corriger || per omne fas ac nefas Liv. 6, 14, 10, par tous les moyens, licites et illicites ; nefas belli Luc. 2, 507, le crime impie de la guerre || [exclam.] nefas ! Virg. En. 10, 673, ô forfait ! ô impiété ! ô honte ! cf. Virg. En. 8, 688 ; horreur ! Virg. En. 7, 73
2. [fig.] monstre d'impiété, de cruauté, etc. : Virg. En. 2, 585.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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nefās:

NEFAS indecl. n. [ἀθεμιστουργία] Impium facinus, et execrabile scelus, quod nec fas est, nec dici aut nominari debet. […]
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FOR Forcellini (1)
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Egidio Forcellini, Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Digital entries displayed from lexica.linguax.com, maintained by Godmy. All credit belongs to the respective authors and contributors.