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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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• trifle (subs.):
      1. 1. res parva, lĕvis, mĭnūta; parvi (exigui) momenti: v. trifling.
      2. 2. only pl. nūgae, arum (nonsense): thinking over some t. [verses], nescio quid meditans nugarum, Hor. S. 1, 9, 2: v. nonsense.
      3. 3. ăpĭnae, trīcae, arum (something without value: v. rare): Mart. 14, 1, 7 (sunt apinae tricaeque et si quid vilius istis). Phr.: to regard anything as a mere t., aliquid in levi habere, Tac. H. 2, 21: to waste the day over senseless t.s, diem frigidis [frigidissimis] rebus absumere, Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 3. (The use of minutiae, arum, in this sense, is without classical authority.)
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• trifle (v.): lūdo, si, sum, 3: v. to fool (I.). So illūdo, 3 (to t. away): cf. ib. (II.). (Nugari denotes something more than trifling: = to talk nonsense.) Sometimes opp. to being in earnest: jŏcor, 1: v. to joke. Sometimes used of poetical composition: lūdo: Hor. Od. 4, 9, 9.
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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• TRIFLE
1. s. res parva: res minuta: paullum: paullulum [SYN. in LITTLE]: opus minutum (a work of art in miniature): munus leve: munusculum (a little present): res parvi momenti (anything of small importance): It may also frequently be expressed by the adjectives, parvus, levis, perlevis. Trifles, minutiae; res parvae or minutae; nugae (insignificant trifles): apinae (bagatelles, nonsense; Martialis, 1, 114, 2, sq., of his epigrams): this is a trifle, hoc leve est; id parvum est: it is no trifle, est aliquid: non leve est: these are trifles, haec parva sunt; haec nugae sunt (inconsiderable things not worth caring for; e.g., these are trifles, but it was by not despising these trifles that, etc., parva sunt haec, sed parva ista non contemnendo, etc.; Liv., 6, 41); sunt apinae tricaeque et si quid vilius istis (scarcely worthy of regard; Martialis, 14, 1, 7; of things): is that (circumstance) a trifle? num parva causa est? that is no trifle in my sight, non parvi illud aestimo: to reduce a very difficult thing to a mere trifle, rem facilem ex difficillima redigere (Caes., B.G., 2, 27): he accomplished the matter, which certainly was no trifle, id quod erat difficillimum, effecit: to give one’s self up to trifles; to trouble one’s self about trifles, minutiarum esse studiosum (☞ but not reduviam curare, which has the meaning only from the context; Cic., Rosc. Am., 44, 128): anything is a mere trifle to me, aliquid mihi jocus or ludus est: to injure a person not even in the merest trifle, ne minima quidem re laedere aliquem: to buy for a trifle (at a low price), parvo emere, aere pauco emere: to be knocked down at a trifle, nummo addici (at an auction).
2. v. nugari: alucinari (Cic.); ineptire (Terentianus); ludere (Hor., Ep.).