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

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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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mappārum | que: fem gen pl

• mappa, ae, f. [Punic, Quint. 1, 5, 57], a napkin, table-napkin; a towel.
  1. I. Lit.: Varius mappa compescere risum Vix poterat, Hor. S. 2, 8, 63: laticlavia, Petr. 32; Mart. 4, 46, 17: rubra detergere vulnera mappa, Juv. 5, 27.—
  2. II. Transf., a cloth with which the signal for starting was given to racers in the circus, a signalcloth: mappam usitatum Circo nomen, Poeni sibi vindicant, Quint. 1, 5, 57: mappa cretata, Mart. 12, 29, 9: Megalesiacae spectacula mappae, Juv. 11, 191: aliquo liberto mittente mappam, unde magistratus solent, Suet. Ner. 22.
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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mappārum | que: fem gen pl

• mappa, æ, f.,
1. serviette ; serviette de table : Cato Agr. 10, 5 ; Hor. S. 2, 8, 63 ; Mart. 4, 46, 17 ; Juv. 5, 27
2. serviette qu'on jetait dans le cirque pour donner le signal des jeux : Quint. 1, 5, 57 ; Mart. 12, 29, 9 ; mittere mappam Suet. Nero 22, donner le signal des jeux ; spectacula mappæ Juv. 11, 191, = jeux du cirque.