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

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Lewis and Short La → En Gaffiot La → Fr Gesner La → La Forcellini La → La Smith and Hall En → La Riddle and Arnold En → La Georges De → La Pozo Es → La Numeral * → *

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Caesar noun Gall. 1.1 omnia

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Smith & Hall

I. Of an insect
1. crīnis, is, m. (hair-like)
2. cornĭcŭlum (lit. a small horn)
II. Fig.

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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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I. Of an insect
1. crīnis, is, m. (hair-like)
2. cornĭcŭlum (lit. a small horn)
II. Fig.

• feeler:

I. Of an insect:

1. crīnis, is, m. (hair-like): the f.s of polypes, (polyporum) crines, Plin. 9, 29, 46.
2. cornĭcŭlum (lit. a small horn): the f.s (antennae) of butterflies, (papilionum) c., Plin. 11, 28, 34.

II. Fig.: an experimental movement: Phr.: a suggestion first thrown out as a f., mentio primo sensim illata, Liv. 4, 1: to put out a f., *aliquid experiendi causa, tentantis modo, facere: v. to try, feel (I.).