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

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S&H Smith & Hall (3)
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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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• front (subs.): i. e. the fore part of anything:
      1. 1. frons, ntis, f.: he draws up his forces in f. of the camp, copias ante f. castrorum instruit, Caes. B. C. 3, 37 (a somewhat unusual expr.): he proceeded with a straight f. to battle, aequa f. ad pugnam procedebat, Liv. 36, 44, init.: he stationed eight cohorts in the f., octo cohortes in f. constituit, Sall.: in f. and on the left, a f. et ab sinistra parte, Caes. B. G. 2, 23: the f. of a house, f. aedium, Vitr.
      2. 2. prior pars: v. fore.
      3. 3. (milit. t. t.) princĭpia, orum (the troops who in forming line of battle would be next the enemy): immediately behind the f., post pr., Sall. Jug. 50 (v. Long ad l.): Liv.
      4. 4. prīmum agmen (of troops marching): Sall.: Liv.: v. van. Phr.: in f. of, or from the f. of, pro (with abl.): in f. of all the temples, pro templis omnibus, Cic. Mil. init.: to announce anything from the f. of a platform, aliquid pro suggestu pronuntiare, Cæs. B. G. 6, 3: Cic. See also before, opposite to. Sometimes in front may be expr. by adversus (adj.): as, a wound in f. (opp. to in the back), adversum vulnus, Cic. Harusp. resp. 19, 40: in the f. of the body, adverso corpore, Cic. Verr. 5, 1, 3: in f. of each other, ex adverso (of armies), Suet. Caes. 39, med.: Just.
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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• FRONT
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  • s. frons (in all the meanings of the English word; in font, a fronte [military technical term; opposed to a tergo, a latere] intervalla trabium in fronte saxis effarcire, Caes.; cohortes in fronte constituere, Suet.; ante frontem castrorum copias struere, Caes.; ante frontem aedium, Vitr.): pars antica (opposed to pars postica): pars prior (e.g., capitis, Plin., opposed to pars aversa): In font of the camp, ante frontem castrorum; ante castra; pro castris: to present their font to the enemy, in hostem obverti (Curt., 4, 15, 21). Wounds received in font, vulnera adversa (so cicatrices adversae). The font of a building, frons.
  • Face, impudence, os (e.g., durum, ferreum, etc.): frons (e.g., inverecunda, Quint.; proterva, Hor.).
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  • v. To stand opposite to, *exadversus aliquem stare (of persons): contra aliquid esse or positum esse: ex adverso positum esse (general terms of things): ex adverso constitutum esse (to be placed or drawn up in font of; e.g., of ships; also, classes ex adverso stant, Suet., Just.). To font the street [Vid: To FACE].
  • To face boldly, to oppose, alicui obsistere, resistere.
3. as adjective, anticus (opposed to what is in the back part, posticus): prior (opposed to posterior; e.g., the font legs, priores pedes): adversus (what is opposite to us; opposed to aversus, what is turned from us). Font teeth [Vid: TOOTH]. The font ranks, primi ordines.
GRG Georges (1)
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Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (8th ed., 1913/1918). Digitized data accessed from latin-dict.github.io and is in the public domain.
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Front, frons.
die dem Feinde zugekehrte Fr., frons adversa: vor der Fr. des Lagers, pro castris: die Soldaten in Fr. aufstellen, copias in fronte statuere, constituere; copias explicare (sich formieren lassen): Fr. machen gegen den Feind, in hostem obverti: die Fr. ändern, signa convertere: den Feind in der Fr. angreifen, hostes adversos aggredi: den Feind hinter der Fr. angreifen, hosti averso instare.