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

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Contents (3 entries · 6 senses)
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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• strait (subs.):
    1. I. Difficulty:
      1. 1. angustiae, arum: to be put into great s.s (perplexity), in summas a. adduci, Cic. Quint. 5: in these s.s, quum in his a. res esset, Caes. B. C. 1, 54. Also neut. adj. angustum may be used in angustum cogi, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 2: Caes. (not, however, as subject of sentence).
      2. 2. expr. by haereo, si, sum, 2 (to stick fast, be in s.s): he is in s.s (can't get on), haeret in salebra, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84 and absol., id. Ph. 2, 29, 74.
    2. II. A narrow part of the sea:
      1. 1. frĕtum: the Sicilian s., (S. of Messina), f. Siciliense, Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24. the s.s of Gibraltar, (in Roman phrase), f. nostri maris et Oceani, Sall. Jug. 17.
      2. 2. angustiae, arum (any narrow place on land or sea): cf. angustiae Hellesponti, Suet. Caes. 63: and, a. fretorum, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 19.
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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• STRAIT
1. adj., Vid. NARROW, DIFFICULT.
2.
  • s. A narrow part of the sea, fretum: euripus (the former the common and pure Latin word; the latter borrowed from the Greek; with the Greeks and Romans, also especially the straits between Euboea and Boeotia, now Golfo di Negroponte): fauces angustae or artae (a narrow channel); sometimes bosporus (e.g., bosporus Thracius, Cimmerius). The straits of Gibraltar, fretum Gaditanum or Herculeum.
  • Difficulty, Vid: STRAIT-WAISTCOAT, to put in a strait-waistcoat, constringere aliquem (Cic.). Ought not you to have a strait-waistcoat put on you? tu mentis es compos? tu non constringendus? (Cic., Phil., 2, 38, 97).