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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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• bosom (subs.):
      1. 1. sĭnus, ūs (the breast; also, the folds of the dress about the breast): to put one's hand into a person's b., manum in s. alicui inserere, Ter.: give me the letter from his b., cedo mihi ex ipsius sinu literas, Cic.: Antony opposed his b. to the drawn sword, opposuit s. Antonius stricto ferro, Tac. Fig.: of an embrace; affection: to receive a person to one's b. and embrace, suo s. complexuque aliquem recipere, Cic.: to weep in the bosom of a friend, in amici s. deflere, Plin. So of the interior, midst, of any place: to be dragged from the b. and lap of one's country, e s. gremioque patriae abstrahi, Cic.: in the b. of profound peace, in intimo s. pacis, Plin.
      2. 2. grĕmĭum (strictly lap: q. v., but also sometimes used for bosom, esp. in its more fig. acceptations): he flings himself upon thy b., in g. tuum se rejicit, Lucr. (of Mars and Venus): (the land) which embraces in its b. my father's bones, quae patris gremio complectitur ossa, Virg.: the Po issues from the b. of mount Vesulus, Padus gremio Vesuli montis profluit, Plin.: the earth receives the seed in its b., terra gremio semen excipit, Cic.
      3. 3. pectus, ŏris, n. (the breast: whereas sinus and gremium do not denote parts of the body, but of the dress as connected with posture): to beat the b., ferire pectora, Ov.: v. breast. In fig. sense it is equiv. to the Eng. heart (q. v.): hence phr. a bosom friend, pectus amicitiae, Mart. 9, 14. Phr.: he is one of my b. friends, est ex meis domesticis atque intimis familiaribus, Cic.: your b. friend, tuus amicus et sodalis, Pl.: they are b. friends, uterque utrique est cordi, Ter.: thee my b. friend, te partem meae animae, Hor. (but the Latin is much stronger): v. breast, heart, bowels.
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• bosom (v.): chiefly in p. part. 'bosomed': Phr.: a town b.'d in woods, *oppidum silvis undique cinctum.
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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• BOSOM
sinus (of the body, of a garment): pectus, animus (figuratively, breast, heart): pars interior (intima); interiora (intima), viscera; complexus. To weep on the bosom of a friend, in amici sinu flere. To press one to his bosom, aliquem arctius complecti; aliquem amplexari. To see into one’s bosom, apertum alicujus pectus videre. To look into one’s own bosom, in sese descendere. The enemy are in the bosom of the city, in sinu urbis hostes sunt. They dug into the bosom of the earth, itum est in viscera terrae. To banish from his inmost bosom, aliquid ex intima mente evellere. The secrets of one’s bosom, animi secreta, occulta pectoris. Furies which haunt the bosom, domesticae furiae. To be one’s bosom friend, de complexu et sinu alicujus esse; in sinu alicujus gestari. A bosom friend, sodalis; amicus conjunctissimus; amicissimus, intimus. The world holds all things in its bosom, mundus omnia complexu suo coercet et continet.