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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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• deaf:
    1. I. Lit.: unable to hear:
      1. 1. surdus: Cic.: d. ears, s. aures, Tib.: a d.-mute, surdus idemque mutus, Plin. Dimin. surdaster, somewhat d., Cic.
      2. 2. captus auribus (disabled in the ears, whether by nature or otherwise): Cic. Phr.: to be d., carere sensu audiendi, Cic.: to become d., obsurdescere, Cic.
    2. II. Fig.: of those who refuse to hear: surdus: d. to prayers, in vota s., Ov.: deafer than the rising sea, surdior freto surgente, Ov.: to turn a d. ear to prayers, surda negligere aure preces, Prop.: to speak to d. ears, surdo narrare fabulam, Ter. Phr.: to turn a d. ear, and refuse to listen to advice, obsurdescere nec ea quae monemur audire, Cic.: I am d. (comicé), nihil audio, Ter. Andr. 5, 2, 22; mortuo verba fiunt, Ter. Phor. 5, 8, 26: to turn a d. ear to prayers, preces aversari, Liv. (see also supr.): fear makes men d., timor animi aures officit, Sall. to be a trifle d., aures hebetiores habere, Cic. Planc. 27, 66.
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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• DEAF
surdus (both of one who can not, and of one who will not hear): auribus captus (whether naturally deaf, or through illness): somewhat deaf, surdaster (Cic., Tusc., 5, 40, 116): naturally deaf, alicui auditus negatus est: to grow deaf, obsurdescere: to make anybody almost deaf with anything, aliquem or alicujus aures obtundere aliqua re: the ears of anybody are deaf to anything, aures alicujus ad aliquid surdae, or ad aliquid clausae sunt; surdus est aliquis in aliqua re; aliquid in aures non recipit or accipit: to be deaf to advice, aliquem (monentem) non audire: to preach to deaf ears, surdo or surdis auribus canere (V.L., 40, 4); frustra surdas aures fatigare (Curt.): surdo narrare fabulam (Terentianus); verba fiunt mortuo (Terentianus): deaf and dumb, naturaliter surdus idemque mutus: cui et auditus negatus est, et sermonis usus ablatus (both after Plin., 10, 69, 88). To turn a deaf ear to anybody, respuere aliquem auribus, or aures aliquem respuunt (to refuse to listen to a person one dislikes).