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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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• breast (subs.):
    1. I. The organ that secretes milk:
      1. 1. mamma, mammilla, or mămilla: to give the b. to a child, puero mammam dare, Pl.: Cic. (In medical writers mamma is the breast of females; mammilla of males: Mayne.).
      2. 2. ūber, ĕris, n. (when full of milk): milky b.s, lactea u., Virg. his own mother nourishes every (child) with her b.s, sua quemque mater uberibus alit, Tac.
      3. 3. păpilla (poet.): Cat.: Virg.
    2. II. The upper and front part of the body; also, the cavity situated behind it:
      1. 1. pectus, ŏris, n.: Ov.: Cels. Plin. Phr.: having a broad or full b., pectŏrōsus: Plin.: Col.
      2. 2. praecordĭa, orum: the breath remaining in the b., spiritu remanente in praecordiis, Liv. v. chest.
    3. III. The feelings:
      1. 1. pectus: he soothes their grieving b.s, moerentia p. mulcet, Virg.: pure b.s, p. casta, Ov.
      2. 2. praecordĭa: at times valour returns into the b. even of the conquered, quondam etiam victis redit in p. virtus, Virg.: Hor.: v. bosom, heart.
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• breast (v.): Phr.: he courageously b.s the waves, *fortiter pectus (pectora) fluctibus opponit; fluctus adverso pectore excipit: v. to face.
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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• BREAST
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  • pectus, thorax; praecordia (the cavity of the chest, with the heart and lungs): latus, latera (with reference to the state of the lungs). To receive wounds in the breast (i. e., in front), vulnera adversa accipere or adverse corpore excipere. A breast-wound, vulnus pectoris. A pain in the breast, dolor pectoris, praecordiorom.
  • The breasts, mammae (especially of human beings): ubera, uberum (especially of brutes). Under the left breast, infra laevam papillam. Having large breasts, mammosus. To put an infant to the breast, mammam infanti dare or praebere. A little breast, mammula:
  • (as the seat of feeling, etc.) pectus, animus. The furies of the breast, domesticae furiae. But Vid: also BOSOM.
2. v. pectus opponere alicui rei, alicui rei adverso pectore resistere; obniti, reluctari. Breast the waves, fluctibus (forti pectore) obniti. Breast adversity, fortia pectora adversis rebus opponite (imperative).