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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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• folly:
      1. 1. stultĭtia (most general term): O incredible delusion (i. e., astrology) for it is not every error that should be called f., O incredibilem delirationem! non enim omnis error s. est dicenda, Cic. Div. 2, 43, 90: it is f. to ..., stultitiae, stultorum est, cf. L. G. § 266.
      2. 2. fătuĭtas (rare = sheer f., idiotcy: v. syn. under fool): this should not be named ignorance, but sheer f., non hanc imprudentiam ... sed f. nominari oportere, Cic. Inv. 2, 32, 99.
      3. 3. insĭpientia (absence of sound judgment or wisdom): f. is as it were an unhealthy condition of mind, ins. est quasi insanitas quaedam animi, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10: Pl.
      4. 4. āmentia, dēmentia (the state of one bereft of reason, mens): the condition of the mind lacking the light of intellect, they named f., animi affectionem mentis lumine carentem nominaverunt amentiam, eandemque dementiam, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10: he thought it the height of f., summae d. esse putavit, Caes. B. G. 4, 13: v. infatuation.
      5. 5. ĭneptia (silliness, absurdity of particular acts or things: esp. in pl.): of all f.s perhaps there is not one greater, omnium in. haud scio an nulla sit major, Cic. de Or. 2, 4, 18.
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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• FOLLY
  • As state; quality of mind, stultitia: dementia: fatuitas: insipientia: dementia: amentia: delirium. [SYN. of adjectives in FOOLISH.] That is a very great folly, there can be no greater folly, quo nihil est stultius: I consider it the height of folly to, etc., summae dementiae esse judico, with infinitive; or quid est stultius, quam...?To have reached such a height of folly, eo dementiae progressum esse.
  • A foolish action or deed, *stulte or inepte factum; stultitia. It is folly to, etc., stultitia est (aliquid facere). To commit a folly, stulte or imprudenter facere (from imprudence): to commit all sorts of folly, omnia stulte facere: to bear anybody’s follies, alicujus stultitias ferre: to give way or to submit to anybody’s follies and absurdities, alicujus stultitias et ineptias devorare: an excess of folly, insania: deliratio: mentis alienatio.
  • Depravity, pravitas: improbitas (moral perverseness, that tends to).