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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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• waterfall:
      1. 1. dejectus aquae (the falling of water): Sen. Ep. 56, 3.
      2. 2. desiliens aqua: a place wet with much spray from a lofty w., locus aspergine multa uvidus ex alto desilientis aquae, Ov. F. 4, 427: cf. a description of an artificial cascade in Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 24.
      3. 3. *cătăracta (in class. Lat. only of the Falls of the Nile, but used once in Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 4 of a sluice, flood-gate).
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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• WATERFALL
dejectus aquae (the falling of water): aquae ex edito desilientes (water itself falling from a height; comparative, Plin., Ep., 5, 6, 37): ☞ cataracta (καταῥῥάκτης, a waterfall in general, in the Greek) is used in Latin only of the waterfalls of the Nile. The waterfall of the Nile, Nilus cadens.