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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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• sacred:
      1. 1. săcer, cra, crum (most gen. term: set apart and religiously regarded): a s. grove, lucus s., Virg. Aen. 5, 761: et pass. (opp. profanus, not consecrated).
      2. 2. sanctus (denoting the quality which is the consequence of a thing being sacer or devoted to a deity; inviolate): the tribunes of the commons are to be s. (inviolate), trr. pl. ... sancti sunto, Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 9: a very s. day, dies sanctissimus, id. Verr. 4, 67, 151: Liv. Join: sanctus augustusque [fons], Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, fin.; sanctus integerque, id. R. Am. 38, 109.
      3. 3. sacrōsanctus (formally placed under the protection of religion, inviolate: legal term, and stronger than preced.): Cic. Bal. 14 (sacrosanctum esse nihil potest, nisi quod populus plebesve sanxisset): Liv. 2, 33, init. (of the tribunes).
      4. 4. augustus (consecrated by due formalities and with proper auspices; hence, venerable, regarded with awe: cf. Ov. F. 1, 609, augusta vocantur templa sacerdotum rite dicata manu): Join: [Eleusis] sancta et augusta, Cic. N. D. 1, 42, fin.
      5. 5. sometimes dīvīnus (relating to God, the gods); or expr. by religio, religiones, etc.: a s. poem, *carmen divinum: a s. war, *bellum pro religionibus susceptum (R. and A.): to regard a place as extremely s., locum summa caerimonia colere, Nep. Them. 8.
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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• SACRED
  • PROP., sacer (opposed to profanus; ἱερός, consecrated): sanctus (under divine guardianship, ὄσιος, not to be violated or polluted, pure, spotless): divinus, religiosus (to be regarded with veneration). A sacred place, locus sacer, religiosus. Sacred groves, luci sacri or sancti. A sacred war, bellum pro religionibus susceptum.
  • Figuratively, (1) Inviolable, sanctus (e.g., fides, officium); sacrosanctus: inviolabilis (Lucr.). To regard as sacred, sanctum habere aliquid (Nep., Liv.). The persons of the tribunes were sacred at Rome, tribuni plebis Romae sancti (Cic.), or sacrosancti (Liv.), erant. Nothing is more sacred to me than our friendship, nihil est mihi antiquius nostra amicitia. (2) Venerable, sanctus: augustus: venerandus: sollemnis. A sacred day, dies festus ac sollemnis.